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RedHat: RHSA-2020:1265-01 Moderate: Procps-ng Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A security fix of medium severity for procps-ng in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 resolves local privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support

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 moderate security issue red hat local privilege escalation linux update 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 ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.5):
x86_64: procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.i686.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.src.rpm
ppc64: procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.ppc.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.ppc64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.ppc.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.ppc64le.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.s390.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.s390x.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.s390.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-17.el7_5.4.x86_64.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1265-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1265
Issue date: 2020-04-01

Topic

An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5Extended Update Support.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 moderate security issue red hat local privilege escalation linux update procps-ng

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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