CentOS ProjectCESA-2017:0654coreutils security update
4.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.3%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:0654
The coreutils packages contain the GNU Core Utilities and represent a combination of the previously used GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
Security Fix(es):
- A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions. (CVE-2017-2616)
Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Stöckmann for reporting this issue.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2017-March/030009.html
Affected packages:
coreutils
coreutils-libs
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0654
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | 6 | i686 | coreutils | < 8.4-46.el6 | coreutils-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm |
| CentOS | 6 | i686 | coreutils-libs | < 8.4-46.el6 | coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm |
| CentOS | 6 | x86_64 | coreutils | < 8.4-46.el6 | coreutils-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm |
| CentOS | 6 | x86_64 | coreutils-libs | < 8.4-46.el6 | coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm |
Related
4.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.3%