SB2018072708 - Red Hat update for procps
Published: July 27, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018072708
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1124)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.The weakness exists due to integer overflow in libprocps's file2strvec() function. A local attacker can execute a vulnerable utility (pgrep, pidof, pkill, and w are vulnerable by default; other utilities are vulnerable if executed with non-default options) and gain elevated privileges.
2) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1126)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to improper bounds checking. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.