Scientific Linux SL6/SL7: SLSA-2017-1574-1 Moderate Sudo Escalation Risk

It was found that the original fix for CVE-2017-1000367 was incomplete. A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. (CVE-2017-1000368) SL6 x86_64 sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29 [More...]

Synopsis:          Moderate: sudo security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2017:1574-1
Issue Date:        2017-06-23
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2017-1000368
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Security Fix(es):

* It was found that the original fix for CVE-2017-1000367 was incomplete.
A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process
status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to
execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges
to root. (CVE-2017-1000368)
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SL6
  x86_64
    sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
  i386
    sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.i686.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.i686.rpm
SL7
  x86_64
    sudo-1.8.6p7-23.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p7-23.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
    sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p7-23.el7_3.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p7-23.el7_3.i686.rpm
    sudo-devel-1.8.6p7-23.el7_3.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team