Bug 1746672 (CVE-2018-20969)
| Summary: | CVE-2018-20969 patch: do_ed_script in pch.c does not block strings beginning with a ! character | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | than, twaugh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A flaw was found in GNU patch through version 2.7.6. Strings beginning with a exclamation mark are not blocked by default. When ed receives an exclamation mark-prefixed command line argument, the argument is executed as a shell command. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-09-19 06:45:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1746673, 1747863, 1747864, 1747865, 1747866, 1759538, 1759539, 1759548, 1764222 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1746675 | ||
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Description
Dhananjay Arunesh
2019-08-29 05:53:34 UTC
Created patch tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1746673] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2019:2798 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2798 This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-20969 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:2964 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2019:3757 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3757 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2019:3758 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3758 The version of patch shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is not affected. The vulnerability was introduced on upstream's patch version 2.7 while RHEL6 ships version 2.6.x from patch. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2019:4061 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4061 External References: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29 |