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CentOS 6 : glibc (CESA-2016:0175)
high Nessus Plugin ID 88757
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Synopsis
The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.
The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the Name Server Caching Daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly.
A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the way the libresolv library performed dual A/AAAA DNS queries. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted DNS response which could cause libresolv to crash or, potentially, execute code with the permissions of the user running the library. Note: this issue is only exposed when libresolv is called from the nss_dns NSS service module. (CVE-2015-7547)
This issue was discovered by the Google Security Team and Red Hat.
This update also fixes the following bugs :
* The dynamic loader has been enhanced to allow the loading of more shared libraries that make use of static thread local storage. While static thread local storage is the fastest access mechanism it may also prevent the shared library from being loaded at all since the static storage space is a limited and shared process-global resource.
Applications which would previously fail with 'dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS' should now start up correctly.
(BZ#1291270)
* A bug in the POSIX realtime support would cause asynchronous I/O or certain timer API calls to fail and return errors in the presence of large thread-local storage data that exceeded PTHREAD_STACK_MIN in size (generally 16 KiB). The bug in librt has been corrected and the impacted APIs no longer return errors when large thread-local storage data is present in the application. (BZ#1301625)
All glibc users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
Solution
Update the affected glibc packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 88757
File Name: centos_RHSA-2016-0175.nasl
Version: 2.22
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 2/17/2016
Updated: 6/18/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7547
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.1
Temporal Score: 7.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nscd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-common
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2016
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2016
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2015-7547