Security update for glibc

SUSE Security Update: Security update for glibc
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:1287-1
Rating: moderate
References: #661460 #676178 #691365 #732110 #735850 #743689 #747768 #753756 #760216 #770891 #774467 #775690 #783196 #796982 #805899 #813121 #818630 #828637
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS

  • An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes is now available.

    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) - Fixed
    another stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results
    (bnc#828637) - Fix buffer overflow in glob. (bnc#691365)
    (CVE-2010-4756) - Fix array overflow in floating point
    parser [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) - Fix strtod
    integer/buffer overflows [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) -
    Make addmntent return errors also for cached streams. [bnc
    #676178, CVE-2011-1089] - Fix overflows in vfprintf. [bnc
    #770891, CVE 2012-3406] - Add vfprintf-nargs.diff for
    possible format string overflow. [bnc #747768,
    CVE-2012-0864] - Check values from file header in
    __tzfile_read. [bnc #735850, CVE-2009-5029]

    Also several bugs were fixed: - Fix locking in _IO_cleanup.
    (bnc#796982) - Fix memory leak in execve. (bnc#805899) -
    Fix nscd timestamps in logging (bnc#783196) - Fix perl
    script error message (bnc#774467) - Fall back to localhost
    if no nameserver defined (bnc#818630) - Fix incomplete
    results from nscd. [bnc #753756] - Fix a deadlock in dlsym
    in case the symbol isn't found, for multithreaded
    programs. [bnc #760216] - Fix problem with TLS and dlopen.
    [#732110] - Backported regex fix for skipping of valid
    EUC-JP matches [bnc#743689] - Fixed false regex match on
    incomplete chars in EUC-JP [bnc#743689] - Add
    glibc-pmap-timeout.diff in order to fix useless connection
    attempts to NFS servers. [bnc #661460]

    Security Issues:

    * CVE-2009-5029
    >
    * CVE-2010-4756
    >
    * CVE-2011-1089
    >
    * CVE-2012-0864
    >
    * CVE-2012-3480
    >
    * CVE-2013-1914
    >

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS (i586 i686 s390x x86_64):
    • glibc-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • glibc-devel-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):
    • glibc-html-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • glibc-i18ndata-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • glibc-info-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • glibc-locale-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • glibc-profile-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • nscd-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS (s390x x86_64):
    • glibc-32bit-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • glibc-devel-32bit-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • glibc-locale-32bit-2.4-31.77.102.1
    • glibc-profile-32bit-2.4-31.77.102.1

    References:

    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-5029.html
    • 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-2012-0864.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/661460
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/676178
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/691365
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/732110
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/735850
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/743689
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/747768
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/753756
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/760216
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/770891
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/774467
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/775690
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/783196
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/796982
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/805899
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/813121
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/818630
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/828637
    • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=17c15337eaf4f28f28cdc9f9d3d731ec