MGASA-2020-0135 - Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 08 Mar 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0135.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-10029

Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack corruption
when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument.  Reported by Guido
Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem. [BZ 25487] (CVE-2020-10029).

Fix use-after-free in glob when expanding ~user [BZ 25414]

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26309
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25487
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25414
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10029

SRPMS:
- 7/core/glibc-2.29-20.mga7

Mageia 2020-0135: glibc security update

Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument

Summary

Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities:
Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem. [BZ 25487] (CVE-2020-10029).
Fix use-after-free in glob when expanding ~user [BZ 25414]

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26309

- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25487

- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25414

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10029

Resolution

MGASA-2020-0135 - Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 7/core/glibc-2.29-20.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 08 Mar 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0135.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-10029

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