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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:1600-1 Important: Glibc Memory Fix

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2018
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This significant Ubuntu patch targets kernel vulnerabilities, improving overall system safety and performance for all users.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2017-18269: Fix SSE2 memmove issue when crossing 2GB boundary

(bsc#1094150)

- CVE-2018-11236: Fix overflow in path length computation (bsc#1094161)

- CVE-2018-11237: Don't write beyond buffer destination in

__mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper (bsc#1094154)

Non security bugs fixed:

- Fix crash in resolver on memory allocation failure (bsc#1086690)

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory software patch important glibc system stability memory overflow openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-567=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

glibc-2.22-19.1

glibc-debuginfo-2.22-19.1

glibc-debugsource-2.22-19.1

glibc-devel-2.22-19.1

glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.22-19.1

glibc-devel-static-2.22-19.1

glibc-extra-2.22-19.1

glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.22-19.1

glibc-locale-2.22-19.1

glibc-locale-debuginfo-2.22-19.1

glibc-profile-2.22-19.1

glibc-utils-2.22-19.1

glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.22-19.1

glibc-utils-debugsource-2.22-19.1

nscd-2.22-19.1

nscd-debuginfo-2.22-19.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

glibc-html-2.22-19.1

glibc-i18ndata-2.22-19.1

glibc-info-2.22-19.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

glibc-32bit-2.22-19.2

glibc-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-19.2

glibc-devel-32bit-2.22-19.2

glibc-devel-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-19.2

glibc-devel-static-32bit-2.22-19.2

glibc-locale-32bit-2.22-19.2

glibc-locale-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-19.2

glibc-profile-32bit-2.22-19.2

glibc-utils-32bit-2.22-19.1

glibc-utils-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-19.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586):

glibc-obsolete-2.22-19.1

glibc-obsolete-debuginfo-2.22-19.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i686):

glibc-2.22-19.2

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Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18269.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11236.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11237.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086690

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094150

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094154

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094161

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1600-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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