Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20181777
Revision Date:2018-05-31Version:635
Title:RHSA-2018:1777: procps security update (Important)
Description:The procps packages contain a set of system utilities that provide system information. The procps packages include the following utilities: ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch, pwdx, sysctl, pmap, and slabtop.

Security Fix(es):

  • procps-ng, procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in file2strvec (CVE-2018-1124)

  • procps-ng, procps: incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.
  • leading to truncation / integer overflow issues (CVE-2018-1126)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Research Labs for reporting these issues.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-1124
    CVE-2018-1126
    RHSA-2018:1777
    RHSA-2018:1777-00
    RHSA-2018:1777-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is installed
  • AND
  • procps is earlier than 0:3.2.8-45.el6_9.3
  • AND procps is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • procps-devel is earlier than 0:3.2.8-45.el6_9.3
  • AND procps-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • BACK