SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2016:1721-1)
High Nessus Plugin ID 93173
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for glibc provides the following fixes :
- Increase DTV_SURPLUS limit. (bsc#968787)
- Do not copy d_name field of struct dirent.
(CVE-2016-1234, bsc#969727)
- Fix memory leak in _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r.
(bsc#973010)
- Fix stack overflow in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r.
(CVE-2016-3075, bsc#973164)
- Fix malloc performance regression from SLE 11.
(bsc#975930)
- Fix getaddrinfo stack overflow in hostent conversion.
(CVE-2016-3706, bsc#980483)
- Do not use alloca in clntudp_call (CVE-2016-4429, bsc#980854)
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 Software Development Kit 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2016-1015=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-1015=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2016-1015=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.