SUSE Security Update: Security update for glibc ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:1125-1 Rating: important References: #888347 #892065 #892073 Cross-References: CVE-2014-5119 Affected Products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.
Description:
This glibc update fixes a critical privilege escalation problem and two non-security issues:
* bnc#892073: An off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in __gconv_translit_find(). An exploit that targets the problem is publicly available. (CVE-2014-5119) * bnc#892065: setenv-alloca.patch: Avoid unbound alloca in setenv. * bnc#888347: printf-multibyte-format.patch: Don't parse %s format argument as multi-byte string.
Security Issues:
* CVE-2014-5119 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5119
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch sdksp3-glibc-9669
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-glibc-9669
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-glibc-9669
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch sledsp3-glibc-9669
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 (i586 x86_64):
glibc-html-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-info-2.11.3-17.72.14
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (i586 x86_64):
glibc-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-devel-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-html-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-i18ndata-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-info-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-locale-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-profile-2.11.3-17.72.14 nscd-2.11.3-17.72.14
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (x86_64):
glibc-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-devel-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-locale-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-profile-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (i586 i686 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
glibc-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-devel-2.11.3-17.72.14
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
glibc-html-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-i18ndata-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-info-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-locale-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-profile-2.11.3-17.72.14 nscd-2.11.3-17.72.14
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (ppc64 s390x x86_64):
glibc-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-devel-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-locale-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-profile-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (ia64):
glibc-locale-x86-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-profile-x86-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-x86-2.11.3-17.72.14
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (i586 i686 x86_64):
glibc-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-devel-2.11.3-17.72.14
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (i586 x86_64):
glibc-i18ndata-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-locale-2.11.3-17.72.14 nscd-2.11.3-17.72.14
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (x86_64):
glibc-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-devel-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14 glibc-locale-32bit-2.11.3-17.72.14
References:
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5119.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/888347 https://bugzilla.novell.com/892065 https://bugzilla.novell.com/892073 http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=b84219db4b55e263e5f4c1589068...