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Security ERRATA Moderate: coreutils on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:12:15 -0000
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Synopsis:          Moderate: coreutils security and bug fix update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2017:0654-1
Issue Date:        2017-03-21
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2017-2616
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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)
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SL6
  x86_64
    coreutils-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm
    coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm
    coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.x86_64.rpm
  i386
    coreutils-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm
    coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm
    coreutils-libs-8.4-46.el6.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team

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