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SUSE: 2017:1627-1 Critical Update: Fix for Sudo Arbitrary Access Issue

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
A vital security patch released for sudo targeting SUSE Linux variants, rectifying a significant vulnerability and providing essential enhancements.
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Summary

This update for sudo fixes the following issues: - 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 OpenStack Cloud 6: zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2017-1001=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2017-1001=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12:

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Topics Covered

security advisory important sudo SUSE arbitrary access

References

#1034560 #1042146

Cross- CVE-2017-1000368

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

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-2017:1627-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory important sudo SUSE arbitrary access

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