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SUSE: 2024:0870-1 Moderate: glibc Security Update and Fixes

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2024
Dist Suse Esm H88
The recent SUSE glibc security update reinforces system defenses against critical vulnerabilities, enhancing memory management and boundary protection to thwart attacks.
* bsc#1217445 * bsc#1217589 * bsc#1218866 Affected Products:

Summary

## This update for glibc fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: * qsort: harden handling of degenerated / non transient compare function (bsc#1218866) Other issues fixed: * getaddrinfo: translate ENOMEM to EAI_MEMORY (bsc#1217589, BZ #31163) * aarch64: correct CFI in rawmemchr (bsc#1217445, BZ #31113) ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-2024-870=1 * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.3-2024-870=1 * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.4-2024-870=1 * openSUSE Leap 15.5 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2024-870=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow moderate severity glibc SUSE bug fixes Linux patch

References

* bsc#1217445

* bsc#1217589

* bsc#1218866

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

* Development Tools Module 15-SP5

* openSUSE Leap 15.3

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

* openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3

* openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:0870-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow moderate severity glibc SUSE bug fixes Linux patch

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