Issued:
2013-11-21
Updated:
2013-11-21

RHSA-2013:1652 - Low: coreutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Low: coreutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

Updated coreutils packages that fix three security issues, several bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

The coreutils package contains the core GNU utilities. It is a combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

It was discovered that the sort, uniq, and join utilities did not properly restrict the use of the alloca() function. An attacker could use this flaw to crash those utilities by providing long input strings. (CVE-2013-0221, CVE-2013-0222, CVE-2013-0223)

These updated coreutils packages include numerous bug fixes and two enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical Notes, linked to in the References, for information on the most significant of these changes.

All coreutils users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • coreutils-8.4-31.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm
  • coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.s390x.rpm
  • coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • coreutils-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm
  • coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • coreutils-8.4-31.el6.src.rpm
  • coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm
  • coreutils-8.4-31.el6.s390x.rpm
  • coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.s390x.rpm
  • coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information