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SUSE: 2021:3289-1 Moderate: glibc Buffer Overflow and DoS

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2021
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SUSE releases glibc patches to resolve vulnerabilities. Refer to advisory SUSE-SU-2021:3290-1 for more information.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Summary

This update for glibc fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2021-35942: wordexp: handle overflow in positional parameter number (bsc#1187911) - CVE-2021-33574: Use __pthread_attr_copy in mq_notify (bsc#1186489) Also the following bug was fixed: - Avoid concurrency problem in ldconfig (bsc#1117993) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8: zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2021-3289=1 - SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8: zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2021-3289=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2021-3289=1

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Topics Covered

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References

#1117993 #1186489 #1187911

Cross- CVE-2021-33574 CVE-2021-35942

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-33574 (NVD) : 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-33574 (SUSE): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2021-35942 (SUSE): 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL

HPE Helion Openstack 8

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33574.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35942.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117993

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186489

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3289-1
Rating: moderate

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