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Fedora 28 : glibc (2018-264d881a62)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120302

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This updates contains various updates from the upstream glibc 2.27 release branch, including minor fixes for the `realpath` function and the i386 `memmove` implementation. Python helper scripts in the `glibc-benchtests` subpackage now use `/usr/bin/python3` as the script interpreter (RHBZ#1577223).

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-2018-264d881a62

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120302

File Name: fedora_2018-264d881a62.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:glibc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2018

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