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RHEL 6 : coreutils (RHSA-2017:0654)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97879

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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.

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 Stockmann 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

Update the affected coreutils, coreutils-debuginfo and / or coreutils-libs packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b5caa05f

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0654

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2616

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97879

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-0654.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2017

Updated: 10/24/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:coreutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:coreutils-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:coreutils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2616

RHSA: 2017:0654