SUSE SLES10 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2015:0550-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83704

Synopsis

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

Description

glibc has been updated to fix four security issues :

- CVE-2014-0475: Directory traversal in locale environment handling (bnc#887022)

- CVE-2014-7817: wordexp failed to honour WRDE_NOCMD (bsc#906371)

- CVE-2014-9402: Avoid infinite loop in nss_dns getnetbyname (bsc#910599)

- CVE-2015-1472: Fixed buffer overflow in wscanf (bsc#916222)

This non-security issue has been fixed :

- Fix missing zero termination (bnc#918233)

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887022

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906371

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910599

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916222

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918233

http://www.nessus.org/u?31052ace

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-7423/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7817/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9402/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1472/

http://www.nessus.org/u?90bd2014

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83704

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0550-1.nasl

Version: 2.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7423, CVE-2014-0475, CVE-2014-7817, CVE-2014-9402, CVE-2015-1472

BID: 68505, 71216, 71670, 72428, 72498, 72844