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openSUSE 13.1: OpenSUSE-SU-2016:0512-1 Critical: Glibc Stack Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2016
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Vital patch released for glibc on openSUSE addresses significant buffer overflow issue. Update urgently to safeguard your machine.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for glibc fixes the following security issues:

* fix stack overflow in the glibc libresolv DNS resolver function

getaddrinfo(), known as CVE-2015-7547. It is a client side

networked/remote vulnerability.

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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 13.1:

zypper in -t patch 2016-234=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

glibc-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-debuginfo-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-debugsource-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-devel-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-devel-static-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-extra-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-locale-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-locale-debuginfo-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-profile-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-utils-2.18-4.41.4

glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.18-4.41.4

glibc-utils-debugsource-2.18-4.41.4

nscd-2.18-4.41.2

nscd-debuginfo-2.18-4.41.2

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

glibc-32bit-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-devel-32bit-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-devel-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-devel-static-32bit-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-locale-32bit-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-locale-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-profile-32bit-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-utils-32bit-2.18-4.41.4

glibc-utils-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.41.4

- openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

glibc-html-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-i18ndata-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-i18ndata-2.18-4.41.2

glibc-info-2.18-4.41.1

glibc-info-2.18-4.41.2

- openSUSE 13.1 (i686):

glibc-2.18-4.41.1

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Read the Full Advisory

References

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

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0512-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 .

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