99324

USN-3239-1

USN-3239-2

RHSA-2018:0805

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249603

GLSA-201706-19

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=8492

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18784

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=fc82b0a2dfe7dbd35671c10510a8da1043d746a5

[libc-alpha@sourceware.org] 20170205 The GNU C Library version 2.25 is now available

This update for glibc fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2015-5180: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference with internal QTYPE (bsc#941234).

Feature work: IBM zSeries arch13 hardware support in glibc added (fate#327072, bsc#1132678)

Other issue addressed: Fixed a concurrency issue with ldconfig (bsc#1117993).

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.

According to the versions of the glibc packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - stdlib/canonicalize.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc     or libc6) 2.27 and earlier, when processing very long     pathname arguments to the realpath function, could     encounter an integer overflow on 32-bit architectures,     leading to a stack-based buffer overflow and,     potentially, arbitrary code execution.(CVE-2018-11236)

  - An integer overflow vulnerability was found in     hcreate() and hcreate_r() functions which could result     in an out-of-bounds memory access. This could lead to     application crash or, potentially, arbitrary code     execution.(CVE-2015-8778)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the way the     libresolv library performed dual A/AAAA DNS queries. A     remote attacker could create a specially crafted DNS     response which could cause libresolv to crash or,     potentially, execute code with the permissions of the     user running the library. Note: this issue is only     exposed when libresolv is called from the nss_dns NSS     service module.(CVE-2015-7547)

  - A flaw was found in the regular expression matching     routines that process multibyte character input. If an     application utilized the glibc regular expression     matching mechanism, an attacker could provide     specially-crafted input that, when processed, would     cause the application to crash.(CVE-2013-0242)

  - A flaw was found in the way memory was being allocated     on the stack for user space binaries. If heap (or     different memory region) and stack memory regions were     adjacent to each other, an attacker could use this flaw     to jump over the stack guard gap, cause controlled     memory corruption on process stack or the adjacent     memory region, and thus increase their privileges on     the system. This is glibc-side mitigation which blocks     processing of LD_LIBRARY_PATH for programs running in     secure-execution mode and reduces the number of     allocations performed by the processing of LD_AUDIT,     LD_PRELOAD, and LD_HWCAP_MASK, making successful     exploitation of this issue more     difficult.(CVE-2017-1000366)

  - The DNS stub resolver in the GNU C Library (aka glibc     or libc6) before version 2.26, when EDNS support is     enabled, will solicit large UDP responses from name     servers, potentially simplifying off-path DNS spoofing     attacks due to IP fragmentation.(CVE-2017-12132)

  - It was found that the files back end of Name Service     Switch (NSS) did not isolate iteration over an entire     database from key-based look-up API calls. An     application performing look-ups on a database while     iterating over it could enter an infinite loop, leading     to a denial of service.(CVE-2014-8121)

  - Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function     in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in the GNU C Library     (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (crash) via vectors involving hostent     conversion. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of     an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4458.(CVE-2016-3706)

  - In glibc 2.26 and earlier there is confusion in the     usage of getcwd() by realpath() which can be used to     write before the destination buffer leading to a buffer     underflow and potential code     execution.(CVE-2018-1000001)

  - Stack-based buffer overflow in string/strcoll_l.c in     the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier     allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of     service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via     a long string that triggers a malloc failure and use of     the alloca function.(CVE-2012-4424)

  - It was found that the dynamic loader did not sanitize     the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable. An attacker     could use this flaw to bypass the pointer guarding     protection on set-user-ID or set-group-ID programs to     execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user     running the application.(CVE-2015-8777)

  - The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka     glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains a buffer overflow     during unescaping of user names with the ~     operator.(CVE-2017-15804)

  - res_query in libresolv in glibc before 2.25 allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and process crash).(CVE-2015-5180)

  - pt_chown in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before     2.18 does not properly check permissions for tty files,     which allows local users to change the permission on     the files and obtain access to arbitrary     pseudo-terminals by leveraging a FUSE file     system.(CVE-2013-2207)

  - A stack overflow flaw was found in glibc's swscanf()     function. An attacker able to make an application call     the swscanf() function could use this flaw to crash     that application or, potentially, execute arbitrary     code with the permissions of the user running the     application.(CVE-2015-1473)

  - It was found that getaddrinfo() did not limit the     amount of stack memory used during name resolution. An     attacker able to make an application resolve an     attacker-controlled hostname or IP address could     possibly cause the application to exhaust all stack     memory and crash.(CVE-2013-4458)

  - A heap-based buffer overflow was found in glibc's
    __nss_hostname_digits_dots() function, which is used by     the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() glibc function     calls. A remote attacker able to make an application     call either of these functions could use this flaw to     execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user     running the application.(CVE-2015-0235)

  - Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based     buffer overflows, were found in glibc's memory     allocator functions (pvalloc, valloc, and memalign). If     an application used such a function, it could cause the     application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary     code with the privileges of the user running the     application.(CVE-2013-4332)

  - An integer overflow in the implementation of the     posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C     Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.26 and earlier could     cause these functions to return a pointer to a heap     area that is too small, potentially leading to heap     corruption.(CVE-2018-6485)

  - A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was found     in the catopen() function. An excessively long string     passed to the function could cause it to crash or,     potentially, execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2015-8779)

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

This update for glibc fixes the following security issues :

CVE-2017-15670: Prevent off-by-one error that lead to a heap-based buffer overflow in the glob function, related to the processing of home directories using the ~ operator followed by a long string (bsc#1064583)

CVE-2017-15804: The glob function contained a buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator (bsc#1064580)

CVE-2015-5180: res_query in libresolv allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and process crash) (bsc#941234).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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.

An update of [curl,glibc,postgresql] packages of photonOS has been released.

Fragmentation attacks possible when EDNS0 is enabled

The DNS stub resolver in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before version 2.26, when EDNS support is enabled, will solicit large UDP responses from name servers, potentially simplifying off-path DNS spoofing attacks due to IP fragmentation.(CVE-2017-12132)

Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains an off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the glob function in glob.c, related to the processing of home directories using the ~ operator followed by a long string.(CVE-2017-15670)

Denial of service in getnetbyname function

The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.21, when the DNS backend in the Name Service Switch configuration is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by sending a positive answer while a network name is being process.(CVE-2014-9402)

DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type

res_query in libresolv in glibc before 2.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and process crash).(CVE-2015-5180)

realpath() buffer underflow when getcwd() returns relative path allows privilege escalation

In glibc 2.26 and earlier there is confusion in the usage of getcwd() by realpath() which can be used to write before the destination buffer leading to a buffer underflow and potential code execution.(CVE-2018-1000001)

Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator

The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains a buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator.(CVE-2017-15804)

Security Fix(es) :

  - glibc: realpath() buffer underflow when getcwd() returns     relative path allows privilege escalation     (CVE-2018-1000001)

  - glibc: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE     (CVE-2017-15670)

  - glibc: Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names     with the ~ operator (CVE-2017-15804)

  - glibc: denial of service in getnetbyname function     (CVE-2014-9402)

  - glibc: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with     crafted record type (CVE-2015-5180)

  - glibc: Fragmentation attacks possible when EDNS0 is     enabled (CVE-2017-12132)

Additional Changes :

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly.

Security Fix(es) :

* glibc: realpath() buffer underflow when getcwd() returns relative path allows privilege escalation (CVE-2018-1000001)

* glibc: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)

* glibc: Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator (CVE-2017-15804)

* glibc: denial of service in getnetbyname function (CVE-2014-9402)

* glibc: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type (CVE-2015-5180)

* glibc: Fragmentation attacks possible when EDNS0 is enabled (CVE-2017-12132)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank halfdog for reporting CVE-2018-1000001.
The CVE-2015-5180 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security).

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2018:0805 :

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly.

Security Fix(es) :

* glibc: realpath() buffer underflow when getcwd() returns relative path allows privilege escalation (CVE-2018-1000001)

* glibc: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)

* glibc: Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator (CVE-2017-15804)

* glibc: denial of service in getnetbyname function (CVE-2014-9402)

* glibc: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type (CVE-2015-5180)

* glibc: Fragmentation attacks possible when EDNS0 is enabled (CVE-2017-12132)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank halfdog for reporting CVE-2018-1000001.
The CVE-2015-5180 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security).

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

This update addresses various minor issues in the glibc package :

  - The DNS stub resolver now picks up changes to     `/etc/resolv.conf` automatically (RHBZ#1374239).

  - The DNS stub resolver supports an unlimited number of     search domains (RHBZ#168253).

  - CVE-2015-5180, a segmentation fault potentially     affecting applications which use the DNS stub resolver     in an unusual way, has been fixed (RHBZ#1251403).

  - `/var/db/Makefile` is now shipped in the `nss_db`     package (RHBZ#1498900).

  - The IBM858 character set is now supported     (RHBZ#1416405).

  - The `compat` NSS service module is again part of the     main glibc package (RHBZ#1400538).

  - A pointer alignment/endianess issue was fixed in the NSS     group merging implementation (RHBZ#1471985).

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

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201706-19 (GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNU C Library.
      Please review the CVE identifiers and Qualys&rsquo; security advisory       referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of       the process, escalate privileges or cause a Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

res_query in libresolv in glibc before 2.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and process crash). (CVE-2015-5180)

Impact

For this vulnerability, an attacker must have local access to the system and know how to make the glibc function trigger an exploit. The attacker may be able to dereference a NULL pointer and cause an application to restart.

USN-3239-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2015-5180 introduced an internal ABI change within the resolver library. This update reverts the change. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Please note that long-running services that were restarted to compensate for the USN-3239-1 update may need to be restarted again.

It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the strxfrm() function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8982)

It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the
_IO_wstr_overflow() function of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8983)

It was discovered that the fnmatch() function in the GNU C Library did not properly handle certain malformed patterns.
An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8984)

Alexander Cherepanov discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to specially craft a directory layout and cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-1234)

Florian Weimer discovered a NULL pointer dereference in the DNS resolver of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5180)

Michael Petlan discovered an unbounded stack allocation in the getaddrinfo() function of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-3706)

Aldy Hernandez discovered an unbounded stack allocation in the sunrpc implementation in the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4429)

Tim Ruehsen discovered that the getaddrinfo() implementation in the GNU C Library did not properly track memory allocations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-5417)

Andreas Schwab discovered that the GNU C Library on ARM 32-bit platforms did not properly set up execution contexts.
An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-6323).

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

It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the strxfrm() function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8982)

It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the
_IO_wstr_overflow() function of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2015-8983)

It was discovered that the fnmatch() function in the GNU C Library did not properly handle certain malformed patterns. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8984)

Alexander Cherepanov discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to specially craft a directory layout and cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-1234)

Florian Weimer discovered a NULL pointer dereference in the DNS resolver of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5180)

Michael Petlan discovered an unbounded stack allocation in the getaddrinfo() function of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-3706)

Aldy Hernandez discovered an unbounded stack allocation in the sunrpc implementation in the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4429)

Tim Ruehsen discovered that the getaddrinfo() implementation in the GNU C Library did not properly track memory allocations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5417)

Andreas Schwab discovered that the GNU C Library on ARM 32-bit platforms did not properly set up execution contexts. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-6323).

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
126337	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2019:1716-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
125004	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : glibc (EulerOS-SA-2019-1551)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
117804	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2018:2883-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
111897	Photon OS 1.0: Curl / Glibc PHSA-2017-0048 (deprecated)	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
109699	Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2018-1017)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
109447	Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL7.x x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
109371	CentOS 7 : glibc (CESA-2018:0805)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
109105	Oracle Linux 7 : glibc (ELSA-2018-0805)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
108985	RHEL 7 : glibc (RHSA-2018:0805)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
104150	Fedora 26 : glibc (2017-2c63df4fe3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
100945	GLSA-201706-19 : GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities (Stack Clash)	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
99204	F5 Networks BIG-IP : glibc vulnerability (K55001100)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	medium
97887	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : eglibc, glibc regression (USN-3239-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
97856	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities (USN-3239-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

CVE-2015-5180

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CVSS v2.0

CVSS v3.0

Vulnerable Software

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