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SUSE: 2017:1626-1 Important: Sudo Escalation Risk Fixed

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
Red Hat releases an urgent fix addressing a severe issue with the management of privileges in sudo. Discover details about the update and its implications.
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Summary

This update for sudo fixes the following security issue: - CVE-2017-1000368: A follow-up fix to CVE-2017-1000367, the Linux process name could also contain a newline, which could be used to trick sudo to read/write to an arbitrary open terminal. (bsc#1042146) Also the following non security bug was fixed: - Link the "system_group" plugin with sudo_util library to resolve the missing sudo_dso_findsym symbol (bsc#1034560) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-1002=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-1002=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important sudo Linux patch SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#1034560 #1042146

Cross- CVE-2017-1000368

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000368.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034560

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042146

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1626-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important sudo Linux patch SUSE Linux Enterprise

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