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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2017.0751 Moderate: coreutils security and bug fix update 22 March 2017 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: coreutils Publisher: Red Hat Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/Desktop 6 Impact/Access: Increased Privileges -- Existing Account Denial of Service -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2017-2616 Reference: ESB-2017.0523 ESB-2017.0512 Original Bulletin: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.html - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - ----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: coreutils security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0654-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.html Issue date: 2017-03-21 CVE Names: CVE-2017-2616 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for coreutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 3. Description: The coreutils packages contain the GNU Core Utilities and represent a combination of the previously used GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages. Security Fix(es): * A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions. (CVE-2017-2616) Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Stöckmann for reporting this issue. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section. 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/): 1321643 - Bug in /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh when using the ksh shell [el6] 1418710 - CVE-2017-2616 util-linux: Sending SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges via su 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6): Source: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.src.rpm i386: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm x86_64: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6): Source: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.src.rpm x86_64: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6): Source: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.src.rpm i386: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm ppc64: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.ppc64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.ppc64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.ppc64.rpm s390x: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.s390x.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.s390x.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.s390x.rpm x86_64: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6): Source: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.src.rpm i386: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm x86_64: coreutils-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.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-2017-2616 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Release_Notes/index.html https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Technical_Notes/index.html 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc. - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFY0PShXlSAg2UNWIIRAsDzAJ9rIuKes9g8dhnNL61X5kDNzEmBqACdFTop dIaDEKdFObp7QGbZs1T0ZZc= =/Cbw - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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