Synopsis
Important: procps-ng security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update 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 procps-ng packages contain a set of system utilities that provide system information, including ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch, and pwdx.
Security Fix(es):
- procps-ng, procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in file2strvec (CVE-2018-1124)
- procps-ng, procps: incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to truncation / integer overflow issues (CVE-2018-1126)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1575465 - CVE-2018-1124 procps-ng, procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in file2strvec
- BZ - 1575853 - CVE-2018-1126 procps-ng, procps: incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to truncation / integer overflow issues
CVEs
References
Vulmon