openSUSE Security Update: Security update for glibc
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1387-1
Rating: important
References: #882600
Cross-References: CVE-2014-4043
Affected Products:
openSUSE 13.1
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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:

glibc was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed:
– CVE-2014-4043: The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen function in glibc
did not copy its path argument in accordance with the POSIX
specification, which allowed context-dependent attackers to trigger
use-after-free vulnerabilities (bsc#882600).

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-544=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use “zypper patch”.

Package List:

– openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

glibc-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-debugsource-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-devel-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-devel-static-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-extra-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-locale-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-locale-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-profile-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-utils-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-utils-debugsource-2.18-4.38.2
nscd-2.18-4.38.1
nscd-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1

– openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

glibc-32bit-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-devel-32bit-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-devel-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-devel-static-32bit-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-locale-32bit-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-locale-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-profile-32bit-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-utils-32bit-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-utils-debuginfo-32bit-2.18-4.38.2

– openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

glibc-html-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-i18ndata-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-i18ndata-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-info-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-info-2.18-4.38.2

– openSUSE 13.1 (i686):

glibc-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-debugsource-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-devel-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-devel-static-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-extra-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-locale-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-locale-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-obsolete-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-obsolete-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.2
glibc-profile-2.18-4.38.2
nscd-2.18-4.38.2
nscd-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.2

– openSUSE 13.1 (i586):

glibc-obsolete-2.18-4.38.1
glibc-obsolete-debuginfo-2.18-4.38.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4043.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/882600

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