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openSUSE 15.0: 2023:0815-1 Critical: glibc Security Patch Updates

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2016
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This significant Fedora glibc enhancement addresses major vulnerabilities and boosts operating system safety.
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now...

Description

This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

- errorcheck-mutex-no-elision.patch: Don't do lock elision on an error

checking mutex (boo#956716, BZ #17514)

- reinitialize-dl_load_write_lock.patch: Reinitialize dl_load_write_lock

on fork (boo#958315, BZ #19282)

- send-dg-buffer-overflow.patch: Fix getaddrinfo stack-based buffer

overflow (CVE-2015-7547, boo#961721, BZ #18665)

- strftime-range-check.patch: Add range check on time fields

(CVE-2015-8776, boo#962736, BZ #18985)

- hcreate-overflow-check.patch: Handle overflow in hcreate (CVE-2015-8778,

boo#962737, BZ #18240)

- refactor-nan-parsing.patch: Refactor strtod parsing of NaN payloads

(CVE-2014-9761, boo#962738, BZ #16962)

- catopen-unbound-alloca.patch: Fix unbound alloca in catopen

(CVE-2015-8779, boo#962739, BZ #17905)

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Topics Covered

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-233=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 i686 x86_64):

glibc-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-debuginfo-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-debugsource-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-devel-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-devel-static-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-locale-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-locale-debuginfo-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-profile-2.19-16.22.2

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

glibc-extra-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-utils-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-utils-debugsource-2.19-16.22.2

nscd-2.19-16.22.2

nscd-debuginfo-2.19-16.22.2

- openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64):

glibc-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-debuginfo-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-devel-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-devel-debuginfo-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-devel-static-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-locale-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-locale-debuginfo-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-profile-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-utils-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-utils-debuginfo-32bit-2.19-16.22.2

- openSUSE 13.2 (noarch):

glibc-html-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-i18ndata-2.19-16.22.2

glibc-info-2.19-16.22.2

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586):

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9761.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7547.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8776.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8778.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8779.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/956716

https://bugzilla.suse.com/958315

https://bugzilla.suse.com/961721

https://bugzilla.suse.com/962736

https://bugzilla.suse.com/962737

https://bugzilla.suse.com/962738

https://bugzilla.suse.com/962739

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0510-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2

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