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Fedora 27 : glibc (2018-9c88c32d15)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110060

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This updates contains various updates from the upstream glibc 2.26 release branch, including minor fixes for the `realpath` function and the i386 `memmove` implementation.

Starting with this update, glibc will no longer re-exec systemd during glibc updates (RHBZ#1579225).

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.

Solution

Update the affected glibc package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-9c88c32d15

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110060

File Name: fedora_2018-9c88c32d15.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2018

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