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openSUSE: 2022:0330-1 Important: Fixed Glibc Buffer Overflows

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2022
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Significant openSUSE security patch for glibc tackling various severe vulnerabilities, improving overall system integrity.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-3999: Fixed incorrect errno in getcwd (bsc#1194640)

- CVE-2022-23219: Fixed buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create for "unix"

(bsc#1194768)

- CVE-2022-23218: Fixed buffer overflow in sunrpc svcunix_create

(bsc#1194770)

Features added:

- IBM Power 10 string operation improvements (bsc#1194785, jsc#SLE-18195)

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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 15.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2022-330=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-330=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

glibc-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-debuginfo-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-debugsource-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-devel-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-devel-static-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-extra-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-locale-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-locale-base-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-locale-base-debuginfo-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-profile-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-utils-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-utils-src-debugsource-2.31-150300.9.12.1

nscd-2.31-150300.9.12.1

nscd-debuginfo-2.31-150300.9.12.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch):

glibc-html-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-i18ndata-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-info-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-lang-2.31-150300.9.12.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64):

glibc-32bit-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-32bit-debuginfo-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-devel-32bit-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-devel-32bit-debuginfo-2.31-150300.9.12.1

glibc-devel-static-32bit-2.3...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3999.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23218.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23219.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194640

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194768

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194770

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194785

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0330-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.4 openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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