Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 580
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 580

SUSE: 2018:1234-2 Urgent: Security Update for Glibc Released

suse
Calendar Grey June 19, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a Security Update targeting glibc vulnerabilities, aiming to remedy possible privilege elevation and defects within SUSE Linux Enterprise.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is ...

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] - A bug in glibc that could result in deadlocks between malloc() and fork() has been fixed. [bsc#1040043] 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 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-990=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-990=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-990=1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update privilege escalation important glibc SUSE Linux

References

#1039357 #1040043

Cross- CVE-2017-1000366

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000366.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1039357

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1040043

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1619-1
Rating: important

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update privilege escalation important glibc SUSE Linux

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.