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SUSE Linux Micro 6.0: 2025:20038-1 important: glibc buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey June 4, 2025
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The latest patch addresses multiple security flaws in the glibc library on SUSE Linux, aiming to bolster user-space applications' security and optimize their efficiency.
* bsc#1221482 * bsc#1221940 * bsc#1222992 * bsc#1223423 * bsc#1223424

Summary

## This update for glibc fixes the following issues: Fixed security issues: * CVE-2024-33602: Use time_t for return type of addgetnetgrentX (bsc#1223425) * CVE-2024-33599: nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (bsc#1223423) * CVE-2024-33600: nscd: Avoid null pointer crashes after notfound response (bsc#1223424) * CVE-2024-33600: nscd: Do not send missing not-found response in addgetnetgrentX (bsc#1223424) * CVE-2024-33601, CVE-2024-33602: netgroup: Use two buffers in addgetnetgrentX (bsc#1223425) * CVE-2024-2961: iconv: ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape sequence (bsc#1222992) Fixed non-security issues: * Add workaround for invalid use of libc_nonshared.a with non-SUSE libc (bsc#1221482) * Fix segfault in wcsncmp (bsc#1228041)

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security advisory buffer overflow important glibc SUSE out-of-bound

References

* bsc#1221482

* bsc#1221940

* bsc#1222992

* bsc#1223423

* bsc#1223424

* bsc#1223425

* bsc#1228041

Cross-

* CVE-2024-2961

* CVE-2024-33599

* CVE-2024-33600

* CVE-2024-33601

* CVE-2024-33602

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2024-2961 ( SUSE ): 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2024-2961 ( NVD ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2024-33599 ( SUSE ): 7.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2024-33599 ( NVD ): 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-33600 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2024-33600 ( NVD ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2024-33601 ( SUSE ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20038-1
Release Date: 2025-02-03T08:53:22Z
Rating: important

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security advisory buffer overflow important glibc SUSE out-of-bound

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