MGASA-2025-0026 Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerability

When the assert function in the GNU C Library versions 2.13 to 2.40 fails, it does not allocate enough space for the assertion failure message string and size information, which may lead to a buffer overflow if the message string size aligns to page size. CVE-2025-0395...

[slackware-security] glibc

New glibc packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/aaaglibc-solibs-2.33-i586-7slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-2.33-i586-7slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security...

MGASA-2018-0098 Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities

An issue in the code handling RPATHs was fixed that could have been exploited by an attacker to execute code loaded from arbitrary libraries CVE-2017-16997. A privilege escalation bug in the realpath function when the getcwd system call doesn't return a valid absolute pathname CVE-2018-1000001...