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openSUSE 13.1: SUSE-SU-2015:1387-1 Important: Glibc Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2015
Scroller Opensuse
Addresses a vital vulnerability in glibc for openSUSE 13.1. Immediate update recommended to bolster system protection.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

glibc was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2014-4043: The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen function in glibc

did not copy its path argument in accordance with the POSIX

specification, which allowed context-dependent attackers to trigger

use-after-free vulnerabilities (bsc#882600).

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue glibc system patch important update openSUSE use-after-free

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-544=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

glibc-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-debugsource-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-devel-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-devel-static-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-extra-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-locale-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-locale-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-profile-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-utils-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-utils-debugsource-2.18-4.38.2

nscd-2.18-4.38.1

nscd-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

glibc-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-devel-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-devel-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-devel-static-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-locale-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-locale-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-profile-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-utils-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-utils-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

- openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

glibc-html-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-i18ndata-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-i18ndata-2.18-4.38.2

glibc-info-2.18-4.38.1

glibc-info-2.18-4.38.2

- openSUSE 13.1 (i686):

glibc-2.18-4.38.2

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Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4043.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/882600

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1387-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue glibc system patch important update openSUSE use-after-free

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