Security update for glibc

SUSE Security Update: Security update for glibc
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0170-1
Rating: moderate
References: #844309 #882600 #894553 #894556
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS
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    An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

    Description:


    glibc has been updated to fix security issues:

    * Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules (CVE-2014-6040,
    CVE-2012-6656, bsc#894553, bsc#894556, GLIBC BZ #17325, GLIBC BZ
    #14134)
    * Fixed a stack overflow during hosts parsing (CVE-2013-4357)
    * Copy filename argument in posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
    (CVE-2014-4043, bsc#882600, BZ #17048)

    Security Issues:

    * CVE-2014-6040

    * CVE-2012-6656

    * CVE-2013-4357

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (i586 i686 s390x x86_64):
      • glibc-2.4-31.115.2
      • glibc-devel-2.4-31.115.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):
      • glibc-html-2.4-31.115.2
      • glibc-i18ndata-2.4-31.115.2
      • glibc-info-2.4-31.115.2
      • glibc-locale-2.4-31.115.2
      • glibc-profile-2.4-31.115.2
      • nscd-2.4-31.115.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (s390x x86_64):
      • glibc-32bit-2.4-31.115.2
      • glibc-devel-32bit-2.4-31.115.2
      • glibc-locale-32bit-2.4-31.115.2
      • glibc-profile-32bit-2.4-31.115.2

    References:

    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6656.html
    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4357.html
    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6040.html
    • https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844309
    • https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882600
    • https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894553
    • https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894556
    • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=1ccbe69cba5cc8835258525263c85657