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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: procps security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2267-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2267
Issue date: 2018-07-26
CVE Names: CVE-2018-1124 CVE-2018-1126
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1. Summary:
An update for procps is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7
Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional EUS (v. 6.7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.7) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
The procps packages contain a set of system utilities that provide system
information. The procps packages include the following utilities: ps, free,
skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch, pwdx,
sysctl, pmap, and slabtop.
Security Fix(es):
* procps-ng, procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in
file2strvec (CVE-2018-1124)
* procps-ng, procps: incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to
truncation / integer overflow issues (CVE-2018-1126)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in
the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Research Labs for reporting these
issues.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1575465 - CVE-2018-1124 procps-ng, procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in file2strvec
1575853 - CVE-2018-1126 procps-ng, procps: incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to truncation / integer overflow issues
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.7):
Source:
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional EUS (v. 6.7):
x86_64:
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source:
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.src.rpm
i386:
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
ppc64:
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc.rpm
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc64.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390.rpm
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390x.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.7):
i386:
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
ppc64:
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc64.rpm
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc.rpm
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390x.rpm
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390.rpm
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1124
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1126
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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