Issued:
2018-07-26
Updated:
2018-07-26

RHSA-2018:2267 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: procps security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for procps is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 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 packages contain a set of system utilities that provide system information. The procps packages include the following utilities: ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch, pwdx, sysctl, pmap, and slabtop.

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, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Research Labs for reporting these issues.

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 Update Support 6.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.7 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.7 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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.7

SRPM
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 43449c3a07fa65c42a85ba353b736c4ab7fd4eec2989c1b443ce1c32bba5aade
x86_64
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 377c5dfed250b0d4933ae7b2c5c0d26517a9b8fbdd0999f5235d0e18fc21ce25
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e733985b0f11fe9d20c88be4645bdab4b12a5e947b65203966a7e92a1bdd6dbd
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6019372d8a01bf2748e0396296c236cde92263afbeeebfa3de6e1628d41b21e0
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6019372d8a01bf2748e0396296c236cde92263afbeeebfa3de6e1628d41b21e0
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1892c6eabc385aa3e85d5c4a5d79945bec2e85d5644bc25c9651f855165a8745
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1892c6eabc385aa3e85d5c4a5d79945bec2e85d5644bc25c9651f855165a8745
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 44b84628655813c7188f1a5a510863084a43bb5bccc300e3f1398573468c7138
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5f9a61f6c38b477f80848064f0d8455f7b90900d56a2ac734370728e7b0f50f3
i386
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 377c5dfed250b0d4933ae7b2c5c0d26517a9b8fbdd0999f5235d0e18fc21ce25
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6019372d8a01bf2748e0396296c236cde92263afbeeebfa3de6e1628d41b21e0
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6019372d8a01bf2748e0396296c236cde92263afbeeebfa3de6e1628d41b21e0
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 44b84628655813c7188f1a5a510863084a43bb5bccc300e3f1398573468c7138

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.7

SRPM
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 43449c3a07fa65c42a85ba353b736c4ab7fd4eec2989c1b443ce1c32bba5aade
s390x
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: bae3057cbf4b4acaa678f94817af571408f37ee828c470fd83e6449635a63ed0
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 81ae092fcf291fdc6401259a84088d8a8ee8ab0e0c2716898ec83662c1bb1ad2
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: a448bb63eb6d9dac765bdbe871630e7dc765a7f878d4edcacd1a7418050a9b9f
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: a448bb63eb6d9dac765bdbe871630e7dc765a7f878d4edcacd1a7418050a9b9f
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 534d36211a16ab204b996860fc1f422cb5f6f7d5822f36aa7132f341ff234e81
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 534d36211a16ab204b996860fc1f422cb5f6f7d5822f36aa7132f341ff234e81
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: 4254a10170cee91d1fe1ef0d0fb6d937f0ac6ab1103fcc4d170cd7f881418707
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 78ba5df5f3cc44cc7757186c40e2ca5084253deecbd687ae2ba5ffd0a1cb5776

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.7

SRPM
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 43449c3a07fa65c42a85ba353b736c4ab7fd4eec2989c1b443ce1c32bba5aade
ppc64
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 6cfb933b4aa9479031e5e54f9245754b26fbd6bba90e1092ff7f75389bb299ac
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 16344fd57f0455d40b5be0c4861bd575de15022b4aea3a46ad7586582af29bee
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 61e22c72c34dbf0e472927cdb6939bde551d37286df02f43d72a939f7089b684
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 61e22c72c34dbf0e472927cdb6939bde551d37286df02f43d72a939f7089b684
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: ae6ef5b4645e2ca4f81c9b83c6cdd3cd54569637806df1a1b81597f307705d64
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: ae6ef5b4645e2ca4f81c9b83c6cdd3cd54569637806df1a1b81597f307705d64
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 638ce014d0879865bbee82a12c270adbcf272e88a4bb1d0243f98fe1566e7e39
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: a9f85dddba58afcddee374d0c9f8705a0b59528a2e838136894453338fedc584

Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.7

SRPM
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 43449c3a07fa65c42a85ba353b736c4ab7fd4eec2989c1b443ce1c32bba5aade
x86_64
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 377c5dfed250b0d4933ae7b2c5c0d26517a9b8fbdd0999f5235d0e18fc21ce25
procps-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e733985b0f11fe9d20c88be4645bdab4b12a5e947b65203966a7e92a1bdd6dbd
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6019372d8a01bf2748e0396296c236cde92263afbeeebfa3de6e1628d41b21e0
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6019372d8a01bf2748e0396296c236cde92263afbeeebfa3de6e1628d41b21e0
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1892c6eabc385aa3e85d5c4a5d79945bec2e85d5644bc25c9651f855165a8745
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1892c6eabc385aa3e85d5c4a5d79945bec2e85d5644bc25c9651f855165a8745
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 44b84628655813c7188f1a5a510863084a43bb5bccc300e3f1398573468c7138
procps-devel-3.2.8-35.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5f9a61f6c38b477f80848064f0d8455f7b90900d56a2ac734370728e7b0f50f3

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