Issued:
2013-11-21
Updated:
2013-11-21

RHSA-2013:1652 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Low: coreutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

Updated coreutils packages that fix three security issues, several bugs,
and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

The coreutils package contains the core GNU utilities. It is a combination
of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

It was discovered that the sort, uniq, and join utilities did not properly
restrict the use of the alloca() function. An attacker could use this flaw
to crash those utilities by providing long input strings. (CVE-2013-0221,
CVE-2013-0222, CVE-2013-0223)

These updated coreutils packages include numerous bug fixes and two
enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this
advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical
Notes, linked to in the References, for information on the most significant
of these changes.

All coreutils users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these
enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 747592 - segfault message supressed with su -c
  • BZ - 816708 - id and groups commands sometimes lie
  • BZ - 827199 - [RHEL6] tail -f doesn't work on panasas file systems
  • BZ - 836557 - du gives bogus warning if named service is running
  • BZ - 842040 - df -P gives new lines when where '\n' is in any of the /proc/mounts fields.
  • BZ - 903464 - CVE-2013-0221 coreutils: segfault in "sort -d" and "sort -M" with long line input
  • BZ - 903465 - CVE-2013-0222 coreutils: segfault in uniq with long line input
  • BZ - 903466 - CVE-2013-0223 coreutils: segfault in "join -i" with long line input
  • BZ - 908980 - Provide the conv=sparse option in dd
  • BZ - 965654 - dd option status=noxfer is ignored
  • BZ - 980061 - mv: fails to overwrite directory on cross-filesystem copy with EISDIR

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: c8b4fd38203a242ee937786bfff12606f5b6333d6572ed8dc481400294bc3d07
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5849ee0a8943e5f0015bf9755c81b1d0cfe44822fd4d69b8b656b69e18bfd153
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6404ed3894b2a7955af51479f828e14cc519f3e976288ab86b088e05f011be2e
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c5128872d93845270d26a0b144c02c7f0e4db89b35bcbbaed79f42159987704b
i386
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 178e4ae2d4ce47b9cc623028235d32f6b470f44fe6ff437f69d5c18d544e03b3
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8458461c18023dff7ccc57df2fe54c3d220d4cda50d42a9c0a8b74599d1304e9
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 4aad961391a8e320e90e533b7eed4f8ba4a4bc31dd7a59821a3e0884512f7509

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: c8b4fd38203a242ee937786bfff12606f5b6333d6572ed8dc481400294bc3d07
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5849ee0a8943e5f0015bf9755c81b1d0cfe44822fd4d69b8b656b69e18bfd153
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6404ed3894b2a7955af51479f828e14cc519f3e976288ab86b088e05f011be2e
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c5128872d93845270d26a0b144c02c7f0e4db89b35bcbbaed79f42159987704b
i386
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 178e4ae2d4ce47b9cc623028235d32f6b470f44fe6ff437f69d5c18d544e03b3
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8458461c18023dff7ccc57df2fe54c3d220d4cda50d42a9c0a8b74599d1304e9
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 4aad961391a8e320e90e533b7eed4f8ba4a4bc31dd7a59821a3e0884512f7509

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: c8b4fd38203a242ee937786bfff12606f5b6333d6572ed8dc481400294bc3d07
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5849ee0a8943e5f0015bf9755c81b1d0cfe44822fd4d69b8b656b69e18bfd153
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6404ed3894b2a7955af51479f828e14cc519f3e976288ab86b088e05f011be2e
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c5128872d93845270d26a0b144c02c7f0e4db89b35bcbbaed79f42159987704b
i386
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 178e4ae2d4ce47b9cc623028235d32f6b470f44fe6ff437f69d5c18d544e03b3
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8458461c18023dff7ccc57df2fe54c3d220d4cda50d42a9c0a8b74599d1304e9
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 4aad961391a8e320e90e533b7eed4f8ba4a4bc31dd7a59821a3e0884512f7509

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: c8b4fd38203a242ee937786bfff12606f5b6333d6572ed8dc481400294bc3d07
s390x
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: a0f9c0af71905c4b974a0ac05f75987615368bbe8ec34bd463ecac2b1189d9cf
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 8fd1c509f0da28146d09087d474e0c7ec322c9da7add4d0353b1c2f9f691840d
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 058b1c35adf80652e49ac198d95bd0311a1491bda485814ec5a8dea91ec7d7e4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: c8b4fd38203a242ee937786bfff12606f5b6333d6572ed8dc481400294bc3d07
ppc64
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 199d8e2dd8c2124831420d8f10960788e8b3dc7ae6ad88eb9ebb10fc9030f030
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 0e973392e6659c04f1bda292d717f9dfe6d6fe35cc1149f4b11ff89fc0082ec8
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: b29b4250e65d9dfaf444a962f139b5028521213b39b11aaecab27f714c2c2157

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: c8b4fd38203a242ee937786bfff12606f5b6333d6572ed8dc481400294bc3d07
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5849ee0a8943e5f0015bf9755c81b1d0cfe44822fd4d69b8b656b69e18bfd153
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6404ed3894b2a7955af51479f828e14cc519f3e976288ab86b088e05f011be2e
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c5128872d93845270d26a0b144c02c7f0e4db89b35bcbbaed79f42159987704b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: c8b4fd38203a242ee937786bfff12606f5b6333d6572ed8dc481400294bc3d07
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5849ee0a8943e5f0015bf9755c81b1d0cfe44822fd4d69b8b656b69e18bfd153
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6404ed3894b2a7955af51479f828e14cc519f3e976288ab86b088e05f011be2e
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c5128872d93845270d26a0b144c02c7f0e4db89b35bcbbaed79f42159987704b
i386
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 178e4ae2d4ce47b9cc623028235d32f6b470f44fe6ff437f69d5c18d544e03b3
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8458461c18023dff7ccc57df2fe54c3d220d4cda50d42a9c0a8b74599d1304e9
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 4aad961391a8e320e90e533b7eed4f8ba4a4bc31dd7a59821a3e0884512f7509

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