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SUSE: 2021:559-1 Moderate Security Advisory for glibc Issues

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Calendar Grey December 5, 2021
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Container Security Update announcement for suse/sle15 provides information on remedial patches targeting critical glibc vulnerabilities.
The container suse/sle15 was updated

Summary

Advisory ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3830-1 Released: Wed Dec 1 13:45:46 2021 Summary: Security update for glibc Type: security Severity: moderate Advisory ID: SUSE-RU-2021:3870-1 Released: Thu Dec 2 07:11:50 2021 Summary: Recommended update for libzypp, zypper Type: recommended Severity: moderate Advisory ID: SUSE-RU-2021:3872-1 Released: Thu Dec 2 07:25:55 2021 Summary: Recommended update for cracklib

References

References : 1027496 1183085 1190356 1191286 1191324 1191370 1191609 1191736

1192337 1192436 CVE-2016-10228

1027496,1183085,CVE-2016-10228

This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

- libio: do not attempt to free wide buffers of legacy streams (bsc#1183085)

- CVE-2016-10228: Rewrite iconv option parsing to fix security issue (bsc#1027496)

1190356,1191286,1191324,1191370,1191609,1192337,1192436

This update for libzypp, zypper fixes the following issues:

libzypp:

- Check log writer before accessing it (bsc#1192337)

- Zypper should keep cached files if transaction is aborted (bsc#1190356)

- Require a minimum number of mirrors for multicurl (bsc#1191609)

- Fixed slowdowns when rlimit is too high by using procfs to detect niumber of

open file descriptors (bsc#1191324)

Container Advisory ID : SUSE-CU-2021:559-1
Container Tags : suse/sle15:15.2 , suse/sle15:15.2.9.5.55
Container Release : 9.5.55
Severity : moderate
Type : security

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