This update for glibc fixes the following issues:
A privilege escalation bug in the realpath() function has been fixed.
[CVE-2018-1000001, bsc#1074293]
A memory leak and a buffer overflow in the dynamic ELF loader has been
fixed. [CVE-2017-1000408, CVE-2017-1000409, bsc#1071319]
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, bsc#1073231]
A potential crash caused by a use-after-free bug in pthread_create() has
been fixed. [bsc#1053188]
A bug that prevented users to build shared objects which use the
optimized libmvec.so API has been fixed. [bsc#1070905]
A memory leak in the glob() function has been fixed. [CVE-2017-15670,
CVE-2017-15671, CVE-2017-15804, bsc#1064569, bsc#1064580, bsc#1064583]
A bug that would lose the syscall error code value in case of crashes
has been fixed. [bsc#1063675]