Issued:
2014-09-24
Updated:
2014-09-24

RHSA-2014:1294 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Critical: bash security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

Updated bash packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.6 Long Life, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Extended Update Support,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support, and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security
impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the
References section.

Description

The GNU Bourne Again shell (Bash) is a shell and command language
interpreter compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Bash is the default
shell for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

A flaw was found in the way Bash evaluated certain specially crafted
environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or
bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Certain
services and applications allow remote unauthenticated attackers to
provide environment variables, allowing them to exploit this issue.
(CVE-2014-6271)

For additional information on the CVE-2014-6271 flaw, refer to the
Knowledgebase article at https://access.redhat.com/articles/1200223

Red Hat would like to thank Stephane Chazelas for reporting this issue.

All bash users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

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/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9 i386
  • Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 2.1 x86_64
  • Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI) 2.1 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.6 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.4 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.9 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.4 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.9 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.4 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1141597 - CVE-2014-6271 bash: specially-crafted environment variables can be used to inject shell commands

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9

SRPM
ia64
bash-3.2-32.el5_9.2.i386.rpm SHA-256: f85cff9bd9b3dc0665bd3b3d298ab1877cab135e6f20d29e094cec2b0c8b0f5a
i386
bash-3.2-32.el5_9.2.i386.rpm SHA-256: f85cff9bd9b3dc0665bd3b3d298ab1877cab135e6f20d29e094cec2b0c8b0f5a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9

SRPM
i386
bash-3.2-32.el5_9.2.i386.rpm SHA-256: f85cff9bd9b3dc0665bd3b3d298ab1877cab135e6f20d29e094cec2b0c8b0f5a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9

SRPM
ia64
bash-3.2-32.el5_9.2.i386.rpm SHA-256: f85cff9bd9b3dc0665bd3b3d298ab1877cab135e6f20d29e094cec2b0c8b0f5a
i386
bash-3.2-32.el5_9.2.i386.rpm SHA-256: f85cff9bd9b3dc0665bd3b3d298ab1877cab135e6f20d29e094cec2b0c8b0f5a

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.