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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2020.0656 Linux sudo process vulnerability CVE-2019-18634 25 February 2020 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: F5 Traffix SDC Publisher: F5 Networks Operating System: Network Appliance Impact/Access: Root Compromise -- Existing Account Resolution: None CVE Names: CVE-2019-18634 Reference: ESB-2020.0573 ESB-2020.0558 ESB-2020.0548 ESB-2020.0503 Original Bulletin: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K91327225 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- K91327225:Linux sudo process vulnerability CVE-2019-18634 Security Advisory Original Publication Date: 25 Feb, 2020 Security Advisory Description In Sudo before 1.8.26, if pwfeedback is enabled in /etc/sudoers, users can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in the privileged sudo process. (pwfeedback is a default setting in Linux Mint and elementary OS; however, it is NOT the default for upstream and many other packages, and would exist only if enabled by an administrator.) The attacker needs to deliver a long string to the stdin of getln() in tgetpass.c. (CVE-2019-18634) Impact An attacker can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in the privileged sudo process. Security Advisory Status F5 Product Development has assigned CPF-25173 (Traffix SDC) to this vulnerability. To determine if your product and version have been evaluated for this vulnerability, refer to the Applies to (see versions) box. To determine if your release is known to be vulnerable, the components or features that are affected by the vulnerability, and for information about releases, point releases, or hotfixes that address the vulnerability, refer to the following table. For more information about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding Security Advisory versioning. +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | | |Versions |Fixes | |CVSSv3|Vulnerable| |Product |Branch|known to |introduced|Severity |score^|component | | | |be |in | |1 |or feature| | | |vulnerable| | | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | |15.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |14.x |None |Not | | | | |BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, | | |applicable| | | | |AFM, Analytics, +------+----------+----------+ | | | |APM, ASM, DNS, FPS,|13.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | |GTM, Link | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | |Controller, PEM) +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |12.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |11.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | |7.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | |BIG-IQ Centralized |6.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | |Management | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |5.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ |Traffix SDC |5.x |5.0.0 - |None |High |7.8 |sudo | | | |5.1.0 | | | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ ^1The CVSSv3 score link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is possible that the document may be removed without our knowledge. Security Advisory Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Fixes introduced in column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are currently running, or does not list a non-vulnerable version, then no upgrade candidate currently exists. 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