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SUSE: 2019:0450-1 Important: Procps Denial of Service Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch tackles severe vulnerabilities in procps, improves overall system robustness, and reduces potential threats.
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

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References

#1092100 #1121753

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

CVE-2018-1125 CVE-2018-1126

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:0450-1
Rating: important

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