Medium: glibc

Issue Overview: In the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 through 2.28, attempting to resolve a crafted hostname via getaddrinfo leads to the allocation of a socket descriptor that is not closed. This is related to the ifnametoindex function.CVE-2018-19591 Affected Packages: glibc Note: This adviso...

Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Appliance is affected by glibc vulnerabilities

Summary IBM MQ Appliance has addressed the following glibc vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-15804 DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by glob function in glob.c. By using a specially-crafted fil...

Fedora 29 : glibc (2018-f6b7df660d)

This update for the glibc package addresses one moderate security vulnerability and a minor defect : - CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in ifnametoindex can lead to a denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido...

Fedora 28 : glibc (2018-916dfe0d86)

This update ensures that valgrind works again without installing glibc debuginfo packages RHBZ1570246. It also addresses a security vulnerability in the mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi processors CVE-2018-11237, RHBZ1581275. Furthermore, the switch to libidn2 uses the final upstream...

Fedora 28 : glibc (2018-264d881a62)

This updates contains various updates from the upstream glibc 2.27 release branch, including minor fixes for the realpath function and the i386 memmove implementation. Python helper scripts in the glibc-benchtests subpackage now use /usr/bin/python3 as the script interpreter RHBZ1577223. Starting...

Fedora 28 : glibc (2018-060302dc83)

This update for the glibc package addresses one moderate security vulnerability and several defects. - CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in ifnametoindex can lead to a denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : slurm (SUSE-SU-2017:3311-1)

This update for slurm fixes the following issues: Slurm was updated to 17.02.9 to fix a security bug, bringing new features and bugfixes fate323998 bsc1067580. Security issue fixed : - CVE-2017-15566: Fix security issue in Prolog and Epilog by always prepending SPANK to all user-set environment...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2018:1991-1)

This update for glibc fixes the following security issues : - CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-optimized memmove implementation for i386 did not correctly perform the overlapping memory check if the source memory range spaned the middle of the address space, resulting in corrupt data being produced by the...

openSUSE Security Update : keepalived (openSUSE-2018-1575)

This update for keepalived to version 2.0.10 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed bsc1015141 : - CVE-2018-19044: Fixed a check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats - CVE-2018-19045: Fixed mode when creating new...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for keepalived (openSUSE-SU-2018:4212-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: kernel-headers-4.19.10-200.fc28

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The header files define structures and constants that are needed for building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the glibc package...

Amazon Linux 2 : glibc (ALAS-2018-1131)

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 in the mempcpyavx512novzeroupper function when particular conditions are met. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.CVE-2018-11237 C Tenable Network Security,...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a Using Components (glibc) with Known Vulnerabilities vulnerability

Summary IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-15670 DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the glob function in glob.c. By sending a specially-crafted string...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by Open Source GNU glibc Vulnerabilities

Summary IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-15804 DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by glob function in glob.c. By using a specially-crafted file...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: kernel-headers-4.19.9-300.fc29

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The header files define structures and constants that are needed for building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the glibc package...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : glibc vulnerability (K06493172)

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via vectors involving hostent conversion. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : glibc vulnerability (K16365)

The nssdns implementation of getnetbyname in GNU C Library aka glibc before 2.21, when the DNS backend in the Name Service Switch configuration is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop by sending a positive answer while a network name is being process...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability (K29241247)

The fnmatch function in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.22 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a malformed pattern, which triggers an out-of-bounds read. CVE-2015-8984 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Medium: glibc

Issue Overview: A buffer overflow has been discovered in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 in the mempcpyavx512novzeroupper function when particular conditions are met. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.CVE-2018-11237 Affected...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: kernel-headers-4.19.7-300.fc29

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The header files define structures and constants that are needed for building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the glibc package...