[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: glibc-2.14.1-5

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

glibc (important)

Specially crafted time zone files could cause a heap overflow in glibc CVE-2009-5029...

SuSE 10 Security Update : glibc (ZYPP Patch Number 7896)

The following bug has been fixed : - Specially crafted time zone files could cause a heap overflow in glibc. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 5555)

The following bug has been fixed : - Specially crafted time zone files could cause a heap overflow in glibc. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is copyright C...

Fedora 16 : glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.4 (2011-17386)

Reverts 552960 patch which is causing a variety of problems. - Sun Dec 18 2011 Jeff Law - 2.14.90-24.fc16.3 - Check values from TZ file header 767696 - Handle EAGAIN from FUTEXWAITREQUEUEPI 552960 - Add dist. - Correct return value from pthreadcreate when stack allocation fails. 767746 - Wed Dec ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.4

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

CVE-2009-5029

Integer overflow in the tzfileread function in glibc before 2.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted timezone TZ file, as demonstrated using vsftpd...

glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.12-1.47 - Don't start AVC thread until credentials are installed 700507 2.12-1.46 - Update systemtaparches 2.12-1.45 - Update configure script 2.12-1.44 - Add gdb hooks 711927 2.12-1.43 - Don't assume ATPAGESIZE is always available 739184 - Define IPMULTICASTALL 738763 2.12-1.42 - Avoid race...

SuSE 10 Security Update : glibc (ZYPP Patch Number 7663) (deprecated)

The implementation of the blowfish based password hashing method had a bug affecting passwords that contain 8bit characters e.g. umlauts. Affected passwords are potentially faster to crack via brute-force methods. CVE-2011-2483 SUSE's crypt implementation supports the blowfish password hashing...

SuSE 10 Security Update : glibc (ZYPP Patch Number 7574)

This update contains the following fixes : - Specially crafted input to the fnmatch function could cause an integer overflow. CVE-2011-1071 - The output of the 'locale' command was not properly quoted. CVE-2011-1095 - Don't search the current directory if $ORIGIN is in RPATH of libraries called b...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 4572)

This update fixes the following security issues found in glibc : - Specially crafted input to the fnmatch function could cause an integer overflow. CVE-2011-1071 - The output of the 'locale' command was not properly quoted. CVE-2011-1095 - Unprivileged users could read the NIS shadow database...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 2700)

This update of glibc fixes the following bugs and security issues : - The implementation of initgroups of the nsscompat module omits all NIS groups at the second invocation within the same process, and also uses a needlessly inefficient method to determine the NIS groups. - An integer overflow th...

RHEL 6 : glibc (RHSA-2011:1526)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1526 advisory. The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which giv...

glibc: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

The addmntent function in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier does not report an error status for failed attempts to write to the /etc/mtab file, which makes it easier for local users to trigger corruption of this file, as demonstrated by writes from a process with a small...

glibc multiple security vulnerabilities

Privilege escalation via shared libraries, fnmatch buffer overflow, DoS conditions, crypt blowfish weak ecnryption implementation...

[ MDVSA-2011:178 ] glibc

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2011:178 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : glibc Date : November 25, 2011 Affected: 2010.1, Enterprise Server 5.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and fixed in glibc: Multipl...

Mandriva Update for glibc MDVSA-2011:178 (glibc)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDVSA-2011:178)

Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and fixed in glibc : Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in elf/dl-object.c in certain modified versions of the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6, including glibc-2.5-49.el55.6 and glibc-2.12-1.7.el60.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, allow local use...

glibc LD_AUDIT Privilege Escalation

!/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file descriptor and using fexecve to easily win a race with...