SUSE: 2017:1611-1 Important: Glibc Privilege Escalation Threat
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June 19, 2017
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now...
Summary
This update for glibc fixes the following issues: - CVE-2017-1000366: Fix a potential privilege escalation vulnerability that allowed unprivileged system users to manipulate the stack of setuid binaries to gain special privileges. [bsc#1039357] - The incorrectly defined constant O_TMPFILE has been fixed. [bsc#1038690] - A defect in glibc's regression test suite has been remedied to avoid false positives. [bsc#987216] 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 Server for SAP 12: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-988=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-988=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List:
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References
#1038690 #1039357 #987216
Cross- CVE-2017-1000366
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000366.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038690
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1039357
https://bugzilla.suse.com/987216
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1611-1
Rating: important
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