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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-0595-01 Moderate: Procps-NG Local Escalation Update

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has released a significant security patch for procps-ng to address potential local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in corporate environments.
An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterpris...

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat local privilege escalation moderate severity update solution procps-ng

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1122 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.4):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.4):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.src.rpm
ppc64le: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.ppc64le.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 7.4):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.4):
x86_64: procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-16.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional E4S (v. 7.4):
ppc64le:

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Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0595-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595
Issue date: 2020-02-25

Topic

An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended UpdateSupport, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAPSolutions.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat local privilege escalation moderate severity update solution procps-ng

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.4) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.4) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.4) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional E4S (v. 7.4) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional TUS (v. 7.4) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 7.4) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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