Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in sudo, glibc affect IBM SmartCloud Entry (CVE-2017-1000368 CVE-2017-1000366)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-1000368
DESCRIPTION: sudo could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges, caused by improper parsing in the get_process_ttyname() function for Linux. An attacker with privileges to execute commands could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite any file on the filesystem with his command's output and gain root privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/127578 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-1000366
DESCRIPTION: Glibc could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a vulnerability that allows specially crafted LD_LIBRARY_PATH values to manipulate the heap/stack. By using specially-crafted crafted LD_LIBRARY_PATH values, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger a stack memory allocation flaw and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/127452 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)