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SUSE: 2021:3385-1 Moderate: Glibc Security Update Addressing Issues

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2021
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SUSE has issued a Security Patch for glibc to resolve severe vulnerabilities. Make sure to apply the necessary updates to safeguard your systems.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for glibc fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-35942: wordexp: handle overflow in positional parameter number (bsc#1187911) - CVE-2021-33574: Use __pthread_attr_copy in mq_notify (bsc#1186489) 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 MicroOS 5.0: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-3385=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP1-2021-3385=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2021-3385=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-LTSS:

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References

#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 MicroOS 5.0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-BCL

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3385-1
Rating: moderate

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