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SUSE 11-SP4: 2018:0075-1 Important: glibc Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2018
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Red Hat announces critical patch for OpenSSL tackling security vulnerabilities found in multiple platforms.
An update that fixes one vulnerability 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] 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-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-glibc-13409=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-glibc-13409=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp3-glibc-13409=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch sleposp3-glibc-13409=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-glibc-13409=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-glibc-13409=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update privilege escalation patch important glibc SUSE Linux

References

#1074293

Cross- CVE-2018-1000001

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000001.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074293

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0075-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update privilege escalation patch important glibc SUSE Linux

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