- Issued:
- 2017-03-21
- Updated:
- 2017-03-21
RHSA-2017:0654 - Moderate: coreutils security and bug fix update
Synopsis
Moderate: coreutils security and bug fix update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory Moderate
Topic
An update for coreutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 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.
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
| Product | Version | Arch |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian | 6 | ppc64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems | 6 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) | 6 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) | 6 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop | 6 | i386 |
Updated Packages
- coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm
- coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.s390x.rpm
- coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm
- coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.ppc64.rpm
- coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm
- coreutils-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm
- coreutils-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm
- coreutils-8.4-46.el6.s390x.rpm
- coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.s390x.rpm
- coreutils-8.4-46.el6.ppc64.rpm
- coreutils-8.4-46.el6.src.rpm
- coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm
- coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.ppc64.rpm
Fixes
CVEs
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Release_Notes/index.html
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Technical_Notes/index.html
Additional information
- The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
- Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.