SUSE: 2018:0074-1 Critical: Glibc Buffer Overflow And Memory Fixes
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January 12, 2018
An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.
Summary
This update for glibc fixes the following issues: - A privilege escalation bug in the realpath() function has been fixed. [CVE-2018-1000001, bsc#1074293] - A memory leak and a buffer overflow in the dynamic ELF loader has been fixed. [CVE-2017-1000408, CVE-2017-1000409, bsc#1071319] - An issue in the code handling RPATHs was fixed that could have been exploited by an attacker to execute code loaded from arbitrary libraries. [CVE-2017-16997, bsc#1073231] - A potential crash caused by a use-after-free bug in pthread_create() has been fixed. [bsc#1053188] - A bug that prevented users to build shared objects which use the optimized libmvec.so API has been fixed. [bsc#1070905] - A memory leak in the glob() function has been fixed. [CVE-2017-15670,
Topics Covered
References
#1051042 #1053188 #1063675 #1064569 #1064580
#1064583 #1070905 #1071319 #1073231 #1074293
Cross- CVE-2017-1000408 CVE-2017-1000409 CVE-2017-15670
CVE-2017-15671 CVE-2017-15804 CVE-2017-16997
CVE-2018-1000001
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2
SUSE CaaS Platform ALL
OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000408.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000409.html
https://www.suse.com/sec...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0074-1
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