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openSUSE Leap 42.2: SUSE-SU-2017:1629-1 Critical Glibc Issue

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A vital security patch for openSUSE addresses a privilege escalation vulnerability within glibc. Ensure your system is updated promptly.
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Description

This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2017-1000366: Fix a potential privilege escalation vulnerability

that allowed unprivileged system users to manipulate the stack of setuid

binaries to gain special privileges. [bsc#1039357]

- A bug in glibc that could result in deadlocks between malloc() and

fork() has been fixed. [bsc#1040043]

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-715=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 i686 x86_64):

glibc-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-debugsource-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-static-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-locale-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-locale-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-profile-2.22-4.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

glibc-extra-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-debugsource-2.22-4.9.1

nscd-2.22-4.9.1

nscd-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

glibc-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-static-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-locale-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-locale-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-profile-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

glibc-html-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-i18ndata-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-info-2.22-4.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586):

glibc-obsolete-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-obsol...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000366.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1039357

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1040043

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1629-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

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