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Ubuntu 23.04: 2023-4d2a20ff45 Urgent: OpenSSL Vulnerability Threats

fedora
Calendar Grey October 4, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential Fedora 38 glibc patch resolves numerous vulnerabilities to bolster system security and dependability.
Security fix for CVE-2023-4911, CVE-2023-4806, and CVE-2023-4527

Summary

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by

multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and

memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is

kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package

contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C

library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a

Linux system will not function.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2023-4911, CVE-2023-4806, and CVE-2023-4527. CVE-2023-4911: If a tunable of the form NAME=NAME=VAL is passed in the environment of a setuid program and NAME is valid, it may result in a buffer overflow, which could be exploited to achieve escalated privileges. This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.34. CVE-2023-4806: When an NSS plugin only implements the _gethostbyname2_r and _getcanonname_r callbacks, getaddrinfo could use memory that was freed during buffer resizing, potentially causing a crash or read or write to arbitrary memory. CVE-2023-4527: If the system is configured in no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf, getaddrinfo is called for the AF_UNSPEC address family, and a DNS response is received over TCP that is larger than 2048 bytes, getaddrinfo may potentially disclose stack contents via the returned address data, or crash. ---- This update contains [changes to ELF destructor ordering](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30869), ...

Change Log

* Tue Oct 3 2023 Arjun Shankar - 2.37-10 - Auto-sync with upstream branch release/2.37/master, b4e23c75aea756b4bddc4abcf27a1c6dca8b6bd3: - tunables: Terminate if end of input is reached (CVE-2023-4911) * Tue Oct 3 2023 Arjun Shankar - 2.37-9 - Auto-sync with upstream branch release/2.37/master, 2dfd8c77b546fbc46d93a5d71ae319d9c230746b: - i686: Regenerate ulps - Document CVE-2023-4806 and CVE-2023-5156 in NEWS - Fix leak in getaddrinfo introduced by the fix for CVE-2023-4806 [BZ #30843] - x86: Fix for cache computation on AMD legacy cpus. - x86/dl-cacheinfo: remove unsused parameter from handle_amd - getaddrinfo: Fix use after free in getcanonname (CVE-2023-4806) - CVE-2023-4527: Stack read overflow with large TCP responses in no-aaaa mode * Fri Sep 29 2023 Florian Weimer - 2.37-8 - Drop downstream-specific patches for ELF destructor ordering (#2239304) * Tue Sep 26 2023 Florian Weimer - 2.37-7 - Further adjustments to ELF destructor order in _dl_fini (#2239304) * Tue Sep 19 2023 Florian Weimer - 2.37-6 - ELF destructor for main program must be called first (#2239304)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2234712 - CVE-2023-4527 glibc: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234712 [ 2 ] Bug #2237782 - CVE-2023-4806 glibc: potential use-after-free in getaddrinfo() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237782 [ 3 ] Bug #2238352 - CVE-2023-4911 glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238352

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-2b8c11ee75' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: glibc
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.37
Release: 10.fc38
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Summary: The GNU libc libraries

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