Security fix for the ALT Linux 6 package glibc version 6:2.11.3-alt4

April 28, 2011 Dmitry V. Levin 6:2.11.3-alt4 - Backported upstream fixes for Sourceware12393, Sourceware12583 CVE-2011-1659 and Sourceware12685. - Fixed nscd reload closes: 25379. - glibc-utils: dropped rpcinfo which is now provided by rpcbind = 0.2.1-alt0.4...

CVE-2011-1659

Integer overflow in posix/fnmatch.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call with a crafted pattern argument, a different vulnerability than...

CVE-2009-4273

stap-server in SystemTap before 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in stap command-line arguments in a request...