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Fedora 23 : glibc-2.22-6.fc23 (2015-7174c4d68d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89282

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update re-adds large file support to the `openat` function, removes support for the `LD_POINTER_GUARD` environment variable (which could be used to weaken security protections in `AT_SECURE`/SUID binaries), and adds function pointer obfuscation to the TLS destructor list.

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=1276761

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288662

http://www.nessus.org/u?75ff1037

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89282

File Name: fedora_2015-7174c4d68d.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

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:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2015

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