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Fedora 27 : glibc (2018-7714b514e2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106279

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses two security vulnerabilities :

 - CVE-2017-16997: Check for empty tokens before dynamic string token expansion in the dynamic linker, so that pre-existing privileged programs with `$ORIGIN` rpaths/runpaths do not cause the dynamic linker to search the current directory, potentially leading to privilege escalation. (RHBZ#1526866).

 - CVE-2018-1000001: `getcwd` would sometimes return a non-absolute path, confusing the `realpath` function, leading to privilege escalation in conjunction with user namespaces. (RHBZ#1533837)

In addition, this update changes the thread stack size accounting to provide additional stack space compared to previous glibc versions.
For some applications (`nptd` in particular), the `PTHREAD_STACK_MIN` stack size was too small on x86-64 machines with AVX-512 support (RHBZ#1527887).

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Solution

Update the affected glibc package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-7714b514e2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106279

File Name: fedora_2018-7714b514e2.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2018

Updated: 10/31/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16997

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000001

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (glibc realpath() Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16997, CVE-2018-1000001