Synopsis

Important: procps security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for procps is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco 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 - AUS 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 6.6 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

• CVE-2018-1124
• CVE-2018-1126

References

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.6

SRPM
procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.src.rpm	SHA-256: 53d520faec336200eac05ef39f8c38820bdddc5a8fea8b606d150e53ce14c033
x86_64
procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 966784e6c19c4fc70ec7390e4856f26c928b00f036d75d0a25b417ace26cb868
procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e69bf1b6ce6ca917150691a1cc39794ccd4525465a86d715134402379ff3d1f6
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 5edf821181ae67857e678a5ec8b82340ccf25e9625562e024334b5a78b9fc20f
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 5edf821181ae67857e678a5ec8b82340ccf25e9625562e024334b5a78b9fc20f
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bbec6ddfbf63f3309d1c4f6181bc0cc99a9be8c75a087db22fe43c19e4583158
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bbec6ddfbf63f3309d1c4f6181bc0cc99a9be8c75a087db22fe43c19e4583158
procps-devel-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 95524bf31d5d9bfe75d1bff898bf35ed363b07bcbb05952ff280a95d611e8196
procps-devel-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bc5d2c54058d2d052dbe5e8d7361f45739be5d0e16f9d5c24009fa44be0ad109

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 6.6

SRPM
procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.src.rpm	SHA-256: 53d520faec336200eac05ef39f8c38820bdddc5a8fea8b606d150e53ce14c033
x86_64
procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 966784e6c19c4fc70ec7390e4856f26c928b00f036d75d0a25b417ace26cb868
procps-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e69bf1b6ce6ca917150691a1cc39794ccd4525465a86d715134402379ff3d1f6
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 5edf821181ae67857e678a5ec8b82340ccf25e9625562e024334b5a78b9fc20f
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 5edf821181ae67857e678a5ec8b82340ccf25e9625562e024334b5a78b9fc20f
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bbec6ddfbf63f3309d1c4f6181bc0cc99a9be8c75a087db22fe43c19e4583158
procps-debuginfo-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bbec6ddfbf63f3309d1c4f6181bc0cc99a9be8c75a087db22fe43c19e4583158
procps-devel-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 95524bf31d5d9bfe75d1bff898bf35ed363b07bcbb05952ff280a95d611e8196
procps-devel-3.2.8-30.el6_6.1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bc5d2c54058d2d052dbe5e8d7361f45739be5d0e16f9d5c24009fa44be0ad109