news 28 Posted May 31, 2017 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: sudo security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:1381-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1381 Issue date: 2017-05-30 CVE Names: CVE-2017-1000367 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle 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 Server (v. 5 ELS) - i386, s390x, x86_64 3. Description: The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes, without having to log in as root. Security Fix(es): * A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. (CVE-2017-1000367) Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Security for reporting this issue. 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/): 1453074 - CVE-2017-1000367 sudo: Privilege escalation in via improper get_process_ttyname() parsing 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 5 ELS): Source: sudo-1.7.2p1-30.el5_11.src.rpm i386: sudo-1.7.2p1-30.el5_11.i386.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-30.el5_11.i386.rpm s390x: sudo-1.7.2p1-30.el5_11.s390x.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-30.el5_11.s390x.rpm x86_64: sudo-1.7.2p1-30.el5_11.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.7.2p1-30.el5_11.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-2017-1000367 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFZLbBNXlSAg2UNWIIRAoOQAJ0QUwHWO/NJzNrCfCbVPpXgF/M/AwCgwCk6 5qW/fvMqNwTRd2F4X2rauUc= =4v7B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Share this post Link to post
