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openSUSE Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-2019-1798)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127035

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for glibc fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2019-9169: Fixed a heap-based buffer over-read via an attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match (bsc#1127308).

 - CVE-2009-5155: Fixed a denial of service in parse_reg_exp() (bsc#1127223).

Non-security issues fixed :

 - Does no longer compress debug sections in crt*.o files (bsc#1123710)

 - Fixes a concurrency problem in ldconfig (bsc#1117993)

 - Fixes a race condition in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP (bsc#1131330)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected glibc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1117993

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123710

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1127223

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1127308

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1131330

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127035

File Name: openSUSE-2019-1798.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/25/2019

Updated: 5/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9169

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:novell:opensuse:glibc-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-locale-base, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-i18ndata, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-profile-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-locale-base-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-extra-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-locale-base-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-devel-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-locale, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-utils-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-utils-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-utils-src-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-locale-base-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-devel-static-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nscd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-info, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nscd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-devel-static

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-5155, CVE-2019-9169