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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-2189-01 Moderate Local Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An advisory regarding procps-ng on Red Hat Enterprise Linux mitigates a moderate vulnerability. Apply the required updates to maintain security.
An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The procps-ng packages contain a set of system utilities that provide system information, including ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch, and pwdx.
Security Fix(es):
* procps-ng, procps: Local privilege escalation in top (CVE-2018-1122)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat local privilege escalation bug fix procps-ng

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1122 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.7_Release_Notes/index.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.ppc.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.ppc64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.ppc.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2189-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat local privilege escalation bug fix procps-ng

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1575466 - CVE-2018-1122 procps-ng, procps: Local privilege escalation in top

1692843 - ps reports numerical CLS value of "#6" for SCHED_DEADLINE policy tasks instead of DLN

1699264 - Free output is wrong

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