Fedora 16 : glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.4 (2011-17386)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57425

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Reverts 552960 patch which is causing a variety of problems.

- Sun Dec 18 2011 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.14.90-24.fc16.3

- Check values from TZ file header (#767696)

- Handle EAGAIN from FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI (#552960)

- Add {dist}.#

- Correct return value from pthread_create when stack allocation fails. (#767746)

- Wed Dec 7 2011 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.14.90-23

- Fix a wrong constant in powerpc hypot implementation (#750811) #13534 in python bug database #13472 in glibc bug database

- Truncate time values in Linux futimes when falling back to utime

- Mon Dec 5 2011 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.14.90-22

- Mark fortified __FD_ELT as extension (#761021)

- Fix typo in manual (#708455)

- Check values from TZ file header (#767696)

- Handle EAGAIN from FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI (#552960)

- Add {dist}.#

- Correct return value from pthread_create when stack allocation fails. (#767746)

- Fix a wrong constant in powerpc hypot implementation (#750811) #13534 in python bug database #13472 in glibc bug database

- Truncate time values in Linux futimes when falling back to utime

- Mark fortified __FD_ELT as extension (#761021)

- Fix typo in manual (#708455)

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

Solution

Update the affected glibc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750811

http://www.nessus.org/u?64a8419e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57425

File Name: fedora_2011-17386.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/23/2011

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2011-17386