Fedora 23 : glibc-2.22-6.fc23 (2015-7174c4d68d)

This update re-adds large file support to the openat function, removes support for the LDPOINTERGUARD environment variable which could be used to weaken security protections in ATSECURE/SUID binaries, and adds function pointer obfuscation to the TLS destructor list. Note that Tenable Network...

Fedora 23 : glibc-2.22-9.fc23 (2016-0f9e9a34ce)

This updates addresses a critical security vulnerability in the DNS resolver related to AFUNSPEC queries with getaddrinfo CVE-2015-7547. In addition, a bug that causes Hesiod lookups to fail with a crash is fixed. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

CVE-2015-1781

Buffer overflow in the gethostbynamer and other unspecified NSS functions in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a misaligned buffer...

CVE-2015-1781

Buffer overflow in the gethostbynamer and other unspecified NSS functions in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a misaligned buffer...