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SUSE: 2018:1991-1 Moderate: glibc Memory Issues and Fixes

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
Concerns arise from the recent SUSE Security Update addressing glibc vulnerabilities, impacting system stability and causing user-reported issues post-update
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available

Summary

This update for glibc fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-optimized memmove implementation for i386 did not correctly perform the overlapping memory check if the source memory range spaned the middle of the address space, resulting in corrupt data being produced by the copy operation. This may have disclosed information to context-dependent attackers, resulted in a denial of service or code execution (bsc#1094150). - CVE-2018-11236: Prevent integer overflow on 32-bit architectures when processing very long pathname arguments to the realpath function, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow (bsc#1094161). - CVE-2018-11237: An AVX-512-optimized implementation of the mempcpy function may have writen data beyond the target buffer, leading to a

References

#1082318 #1092877 #1094150 #1094154 #1094161

Cross- CVE-2017-18269 CVE-2018-11236 CVE-2018-11237

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18269.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11236.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11237.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1082318

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092877

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094150

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094154

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094161

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1991-1
Rating: moderate

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