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openSUSE Security Update: Security update for glibc

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1629-1

Rating: important

References: #1039357 #1040043

Cross-References: CVE-2017-1000366

Affected Products:

openSUSE Leap 42.2

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An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata

is now available.

 

Description:

 

This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

 

- CVE-2017-1000366: Fix a potential privilege escalation vulnerability

that allowed unprivileged system users to manipulate the stack of setuid

binaries to gain special privileges. [bsc#1039357]

 

- A bug in glibc that could result in deadlocks between malloc() and

fork() has been fixed. [bsc#1040043]

 

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

 

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-715=1

 

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

 

 

Package List:

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 i686 x86_64):

 

glibc-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-debugsource-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-static-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-locale-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-locale-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-profile-2.22-4.9.1

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

 

glibc-extra-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-debugsource-2.22-4.9.1

nscd-2.22-4.9.1

nscd-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

 

glibc-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-devel-static-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-locale-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-locale-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-profile-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-utils-debuginfo-32bit-2.22-4.9.1

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

 

glibc-html-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-i18ndata-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-info-2.22-4.9.1

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586):

 

glibc-obsolete-2.22-4.9.1

glibc-obsolete-debuginfo-2.22-4.9.1

 

 

References:

 

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000366.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1039357

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1040043

 

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