This update for glibc fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2017-8804: Fix memory leak after deserialization     failure in xdr_bytes, xdr_string (bsc#1037930)

  - CVE-2017-12132: Reduce EDNS payload size to 1200 bytes     (bsc#1051791)

  - CVE-2018-6485,CVE-2018-6551: Fix integer overflows in     internal memalign and malloc functions (bsc#1079036)

  - CVE-2018-1000001: Avoid underflow of malloced area     (bsc#1074293) Non security bugs fixed :

  - Release read lock after resetting timeout (bsc#1073990)

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.

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