SUSE: 2018:0076-1 important: glibc Privilege Escalation and Daemon Crash
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January 12, 2018
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities 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 buffer manipulation vulnerability in nscd has been fixed that could possibly have lead to an nscd daemon crash or code execution as the user running nscd. [CVE-2014-9984, bsc#1043984] 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 12-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2018-54=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS (ppc64le s390x x86_64): glibc-2.19-22.24.5 glibc-debuginfo-2.19-22.24.5 glibc-debugsource-2.19-22.24.5
Topics Covered
References
#1043984 #1074293
Cross- CVE-2014-9984 CVE-2018-1000001
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9984.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000001.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1043984
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074293
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0076-1
Rating: important
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