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HistoryJun 19, 2017 - 9:16 p.m.

Security update for glibc (important)

2017-06-1921:16:12
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This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2017-1000366: Fix a potential privilege escalation vulnerability
    that allowed unprivileged system users to manipulate the stack of setuid
    binaries to gain special privileges. [bsc#1039357]

  • A bug in glibc that could result in deadlocks between malloc() and
    fork() has been fixed. [bsc#1040043]