| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'glibc' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2014:1128-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
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)
Security Issues:
* CVE-2014-5119
* CVE-2014-4043
* CVE-2013-4332
* CVE-2013-4237
* CVE-2013-0242
* CVE-2012-4412
Affected Software/OS:
'glibc' package(s) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.5
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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