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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:0494-1 Important: glibc Memory Leak

opensuse
Calendar Grey February 20, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A critical patch for glibc on openSUSE targeting various vulnerabilities and enhancing overall system security.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2017-8804: Fix memory leak after deserialization failure in

xdr_bytes, xdr_string (bsc#1037930)

- CVE-2017-12132: Reduce EDNS payload size to 1200 bytes (bsc#1051791)

- CVE-2018-6485,CVE-2018-6551: Fix integer overflows in internal memalign

and malloc functions (bsc#1079036)

- CVE-2018-1000001: Avoid underflow of malloced area (bsc#1074293)

Non security bugs fixed:

- Release read lock after resetting timeout (bsc#1073990)

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical memory leak glibc integer overflow openSUSE

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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-184=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 i686 x86_64):

glibc-2.22-13.2

glibc-debuginfo-2.22-13.2

glibc-debugsource-2.22-13.2

glibc-devel-2.22-13.2

glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.22-13.2

glibc-devel-static-2.22-13.2

glibc-locale-2.22-13.2

glibc-locale-debuginfo-2.22-13.2

glibc-profile-2.22-13.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

glibc-extra-2.22-13.2

glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.22-13.2

glibc-utils-2.22-13.2

glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.22-13.2

glibc-utils-debugsource-2.22-13.2

nscd-2.22-13.2

nscd-debuginfo-2.22-13.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

glibc-html-2.22-13.2

glibc-i18ndata-2.22-13.2

glibc-info-2.22-13.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

glibc-32bit-2.22-13.2

glibc-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-13.2

glibc-devel-32bit-2.22-13.2

glibc-devel-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-13.2

glibc-devel-static-32bit-2.22-13.2

glibc-locale-32bit-2.22-13.2

glibc-locale-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-13.2

glibc-profile-32bit-2.22-13.2

glibc-utils-32bit-2.22-13.2

glibc-utils-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-13.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586):

glibc-obsolete-2.22-13.2

glibc-obsolete-debuginfo-2.22-13.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12132.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8804.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000001.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6485.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6551.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037930

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1051791

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1073990

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074293

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1079036

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:0494-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical memory leak glibc integer overflow openSUSE

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