Security Bulletin: Cloud Pak for Security uses packages that are vulnerable to multiple CVEs

Summary Cloud Pak for Security CP4S v1.8.1.0 and earlier uses packages that are vulnerable to several CVEs. These have been remediated in the latest product release. Please see below for CVE details and the Remediation section for upgrade instructions. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2015-8985...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-18018

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX -R -L options...

RHEL 7 : coreutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - coreutils: memory corruption flaw in parsedatetime CVE-2014-9471 - coreutils: Non-privileged session can...

RHEL 4 : coreutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - coreutils: race condition vulnerability in chown and chgrp CVE-2017-18018 Note that Nessus has not tested for this...

RHEL 7 : coreutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - coreutils: Non-privileged session can escape to the parent session in chroot CVE-2016-2781 - In GNU...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2019-0022)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2020-1484)

According to the version of the coreutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2020-1484)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2020-1194)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2020-1194)

According to the version of the coreutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-2134)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-2563)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-2333)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-2563)

According to the version of the coreutils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSI...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-2417)

According to the version of the coreutils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSI...

EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-2134)

According to the version of the coreutils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSI...

Fedora 27 : coreutils (2018-669520d2ba)

doc: warn about following symlinks recursively in chown/chgrp CVE-2017-18018 - mv -n: do not overwrite the destination - mv -n: provide more reliable diagnostic messages Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system...

CVE-2017-18018

In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition...

CVE-2017-18018

CVE-2017-18018 affects GNU Coreutils up to version 8.29, where chown-core.c in chown/chgrp fails to prevent replacing a plain file with a symlink when using POSIX -R -L, enabling a local user to modify ownership of arbitrary files via a race. IBM/CP4S remediation applies: Cloud Pak for Security i...

CVE-2017-18018

In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition...