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Security Update RHSA-2020:1464-01 for Procps-ng in RHEL 7.6 Released

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A minor security patch is ready for procps-ng on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6. See CVE-2018-1122 for further information.
An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 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 red hat local privilege escalation 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. 7.6):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.src.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6):
x86_64: procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.src.rpm
ppc64: procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.ppc.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.ppc64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.ppc.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.ppc64le.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.s390.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.s390x.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.s390.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.i686.rpm procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-23.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1464-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1464
Issue date: 2020-04-14

Topic

An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6Extended 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 red hat local privilege escalation procps-ng

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

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

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