Executive Summary

Summary
Title coreutils security and bug fix update
Informations
Name RHSA-2017:0654 First vendor Publication 2017-03-21
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2017-03-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 4.7 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

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

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-362 Race Condition

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

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Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-07-13 Name : The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.
File : Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-0907.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-06 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201706-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3276-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-05 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3276-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-03 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1084.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-03 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1083.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-28 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-823.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-14 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0907.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-13 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170412_util_linux_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-13 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0907.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-13 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0907.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-06 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170321_coreutils_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0052.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0654.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-27 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0654.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0654.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-07 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-306.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-07 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-305.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-b11b460865.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-20710607f5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3793.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-838.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-24 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0553-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-24 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0555-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-24 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0554-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-09-21 17:21:37
  • Multiple Updates
2018-07-29 09:21:23
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-31 13:22:46
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2017-03-28 13:25:26
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2017-03-23 13:24:15
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2017-03-21 13:24:04
  • First insertion