Scientific Linux: 2012-03-19 Moderate Security Update for glibc

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:24:36 -0500
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Patrick Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: glibc on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: glibc security update
Issue Date: 2012-03-19
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-0864

The glibc packages provide the standard C and standard math libraries used
by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux
system cannot function correctly.

An integer overflow flaw was found in the implementation of the printf
functions family. This could allow an attacker to bypass FORTIFY_SOURCE
protections and execute arbitrary code using a format string flaw in an
application, even though these protections are expected to limit the impact
of such flaws to an application abort. (CVE-2012-0864)

All users of glibc are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a patch to resolve this issue.

SL5:
 i386
 glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i686.rpm
 glibc-common-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 glibc-debuginfo-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 glibc-debuginfo-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i686.rpm
 glibc-debuginfo-common-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 glibc-devel-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 glibc-headers-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 glibc-utils-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 nscd-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i686.rpm
 glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 glibc-common-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 glibc-debuginfo-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 glibc-debuginfo-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i686.rpm
 glibc-debuginfo-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 glibc-debuginfo-common-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 glibc-devel-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
 glibc-devel-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 glibc-headers-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 glibc-utils-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 nscd-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team