SUSE SLES11 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2013:1251-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 83594
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This collective update for the GNU C library (glibc) provides the following fixes and enhancements :Security issues fixed :
- Fix stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results.
(bnc#813121, CVE-2013-1914)
- Fix a different stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results. (bnc#828637)
- Fix array overflow in floating point parser [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480)
- Fix strtod integer/buffer overflows [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480)
- Add patches for fix overflows in vfprintf. [bnc #770891, CVE-2012-3405, CVE-2012-3406]
- Fix buffer overflow in glob. (bnc#691365) (CVE-2010-4756)
- Flush stream in addmntent, to catch errors like reached file size limits. [bnc #676178, CVE-2011-1089]
Bugs fixed :
- Fix locking in _IO_cleanup. (bnc#796982)
- Fix resolver when first query fails, but seconds succeeds. [bnc #767266]
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.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware LTSS :
zypper in -t patch slessp1-glibc-8082
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS :
zypper in -t patch slessp1-glibc-8082
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?cc4a24bb
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4756.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1089.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3405.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3406.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3480.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1914.html
https://bugzilla.novell.com/676178
https://bugzilla.novell.com/691365
https://bugzilla.novell.com/767266
https://bugzilla.novell.com/770891
https://bugzilla.novell.com/775690
https://bugzilla.novell.com/796982
https://bugzilla.novell.com/813121
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 83594
File Name: suse_SU-2013-1251-1.nasl
Version: 2.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 5/20/2015
Updated: 1/19/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-i18ndata, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-info, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nscd, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2013
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2010-4756, CVE-2011-1089, CVE-2012-3405, CVE-2012-3406, CVE-2012-3480, CVE-2013-1914