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High ALAS2-2019-1315 3 CVEs

Important: sudo security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 11, 2019 · Updated Oct 14, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-14287: CVE-2017-1000368: It was found that the original fix for CVE-2017-1000367 was incomplete. A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. 99999: CVE-2017-1000368 sudo: Privilege escalation via improper get_process_ttyname() parsing (insufficient fix for CVE-2017-1000367) CVE-2017-1000367: A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. 99999: CVE-2017-1000367 sudo: Privilege escalation in via improper get_process_ttyname() parsing

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 sudo 0:1.8.23-4.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 sudo-debuginfo 0:1.8.23-4.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 sudo-devel 0:1.8.23-4.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 3

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2017-1000367 Public exploit

    Todd Miller's sudo version 1.8.20 and earlier is vulnerable to an input validation (embedded spaces) in the get_process…

  • Unscored —

    Todd Miller's sudo version 1.8.20p1 and earlier is vulnerable to an input validation (embedded newlines) in the get_pro…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2019-14287 Public exploit EPSS 64%

    In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and s…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-1000367.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-1000368.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-14287.html