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SUSE Linux 12-SP3: SUSE-SU-2018:2451-2 Moderate: Procps Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 26, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Update: Security update for procps ___________________________________________________
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for procps fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2018-1122: Prevent local privilege escalation in top. If a user ran top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could have achieved privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the config_file() function (bsc#1092100). - CVE-2018-1123: Prevent denial of service in ps via mmap buffer overflow. Inbuilt protection in ps maped a guard page at the end of the overflowed buffer, ensuring that the impact of this flaw is limited to a crash (temporary denial of service) (bsc#1092100). - CVE-2018-1124: Prevent multiple integer overflows leading to a heap corruption in file2strvec function. This allowed a privilege escalation for a local attacker who can create entries in procfs by starting

References

#1092100

Cross- CVE-2018-1122 CVE-2018-1123 CVE-2018-1124

CVE-2018-1125 CVE-2018-1126

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1122.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1123.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1124.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1125.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1126.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092100

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:2451-2
Rating: moderate

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