Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-855
Advisory Release Date: 2017-07-06 19:03 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-07-06 22:56 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2017-1000368)
Affected Packages:
sudo
Issue Correction:
Run yum update sudo to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
sudo-1.8.6p3-29.27.amzn1.i686
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.27.amzn1.i686
sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-29.27.amzn1.i686
src:
sudo-1.8.6p3-29.27.amzn1.src
x86_64:
sudo-1.8.6p3-29.27.amzn1.x86_64
sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.27.amzn1.x86_64
sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-29.27.amzn1.x86_64