SUSE: 2016:0471-2 Critical: Glibc Stack Overflow and Memory Vulnerability
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February 16, 2016
An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has three fixes An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has three fixes An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has three fixes ...
Summary
This update for glibc fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2015-7547: A stack-based buffer overflow in getaddrinfo allowed remote attackers to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code via crafted and timed DNS responses (bsc#961721) - CVE-2015-8777: Insufficient checking of LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable allowed local attackers to bypass the pointer guarding protection of the dynamic loader on set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs (bsc#950944) - CVE-2015-8776: Out-of-range time values passed to the strftime function may cause it to crash, leading to a denial of service, or potentially disclosure information (bsc#962736) - CVE-2015-8778: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could have caused an out-of-bound memory access. leading to application crashes or,
Topics Covered
References
#950944 #955647 #956716 #958315 #961721 #962736
#962737 #962738 #962739
Cross- CVE-2014-9761 CVE-2015-7547 CVE-2015-8776
CVE-2015-8777 CVE-2015-8778 CVE-2015-8779
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9761.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7547.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8776.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8777.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8778.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8779.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/950944
https://bugzilla.suse.com/955647
https://bugzilla.suse.com/956716
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0471-1
Rating: important
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