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SUSE: 2020:4503-1 Critical: libpng Security Flaw and Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
This update from SUSE tackles significant challenges in glibc, emphasizing key security flaws and their solutions.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Summary

This update for glibc fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2017-15670: Prevent off-by-one error that lead to a heap-based buffer overflow in the glob function, related to the processing of home directories using the ~ operator followed by a long string (bsc#1064583) - CVE-2017-15804: The glob function contained a buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator (bsc#1064580) - CVE-2015-5180: res_query in libresolv allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and process crash) (bsc#941234). This non-security issue was fixed: - Fix inaccuracies in casin, cacos, casinh, cacosh (bsc#1058774) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

References

#1058774 #1064580 #1064583 #941234

Cross- CVE-2015-5180 CVE-2017-15670 CVE-2017-15804

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-2015-5180.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15670.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15804.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1058774

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1064580

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1064583

https://bugzilla.suse.com/941234

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:2883-1
Rating: important

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