Important: sudo security update

Synopsis

Important: sudo security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

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.

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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 5 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1453074 - CVE-2017-1000367 sudo: Privilege escalation in via improper get_process_ttyname() parsing

CVEs

• CVE-2017-1000367

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important