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SUSE Security Update: Security update for sudo

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1446-1

Rating: important

References: #1015351 #1024145 #1039361 #981124

Cross-References: CVE-2017-1000367

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

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An update that solves one vulnerability and has three fixes

is now available.

Description:

This update for sudo fixes the following issues:

CVE-2017-1000367:

- Due to incorrect assumptions in /proc/[pid]/stat parsing, a local

attacker can pretend that his tty is any file on the filesystem, thus

gaining arbitrary file write access on SELinux-enabled systems.

[bsc#1039361]

- Fix FQDN for hostname. [bsc#1024145]

- Filter netgroups, they aren't handled by SSSD. [bsc#1015351]

- Fix problems related to "krb5_ccname" option [bsc#981124]

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1:

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2017-888=1

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12:

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-888=1

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-888=1

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-888=1

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2017-888=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List:

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):

sudo-debuginfo-1.8.10p3-2.11.1