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SUSE: 2015:0158-1 Critical: glibc Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2015
Dist Suse Esm H88
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Summary

This update for glibc fixes the following security issue: CVE-2015-0235: A vulnerability was found and fixed in the GNU C Library, specifically in the function gethostbyname(), that could lead to a local or remote buffer overflow. (bsc#913646) Security Issues: * CVE-2015-0235 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3: zypper in -t patch sdksp3-glibc-10206 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware: zypper in -t patch slessp3-glibc-10206 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3: zypper in -t patch slessp3-glibc-10206 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS:

References

#913646

Cross- CVE-2015-0235

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0235.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913646

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0158-1
Rating: critical

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