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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-0903-01 Critical Zsh Privilege Flaw

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical zsh vulnerability patch released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 fixes escalation problem. Find additional information here.
An update for zsh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 zsh shell is a command interpreter usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell (the Korn shell), but includes many enhancements. Zsh supports command-line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and more.
Security Fix(es):
* zsh: insecure dropping of privileges when unsetting PRIVILEGED option (CVE-2019-20044)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update red hat important shell zsh command interpreter

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20044 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
noarch: zsh-html-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: zsh-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.src.rpm
aarch64: zsh-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.aarch64.rpm zsh-debuginfo-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.aarch64.rpm zsh-debugsource-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: zsh-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm zsh-debuginfo-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm zsh-debugsource-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: zsh-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.s390x.rpm zsh-debuginfo-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.s390x.rpm zsh-debugsource-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: zsh-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm zsh-debuginfo-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm zsh-debugsource-5.5.1-6.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0903-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0903
Issue date: 2020-03-19

Topic

An update for zsh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update red hat important shell zsh command interpreter

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1804859 - CVE-2019-20044 zsh: insecure dropping of privileges when unsetting PRIVILEGED option

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