SUSE SLES10 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2014:1128-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83638

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This glibc update fixes a critical privilege escalation problem and the following security and non-security issues :

- bnc#892073: An off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in __gconv_translit_find(). An exploit that targets the problem is publicly available.
(CVE-2014-5119)

- bnc#882600: Copy filename argument in posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen. (CVE-2014-4043)

- bnc#860501: Use O_LARGEFILE for utmp file.

- bnc#842291: Fix typo in glibc-2.5-dlopen-lookup-race.diff.

- bnc#839870: Fix integer overflows in malloc.
(CVE-2013-4332)

- bnc#834594: Fix readdir_r with long file names.
(CVE-2013-4237)

- bnc#824639: Drop lock before calling malloc_printerr.

- bnc#801246: Fix buffer overrun in regexp matcher.
(CVE-2013-0242)

- bnc#779320: Fix buffer overflow in strcoll.
(CVE-2012-4412)

- bnc#894556 / bnc#894553: Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules. (CVE-2014-6040, CVE-2012-6656, bnc#894553, bnc#894556, BZ#17325, BZ#14134)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected glibc packages

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83638

File Name: suse_SU-2014-1128-1.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-info, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-i18ndata, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nscd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4412, CVE-2012-6656, CVE-2013-0242, CVE-2013-4237, CVE-2013-4332, CVE-2014-4043, CVE-2014-5119, CVE-2014-6040

BID: 55462, 57638, 61729, 62324, 68006, 68983, 69470, 69472, 69738

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