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Critical ELSA-2015-0092 1 CVE

Critical: glibc security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Jan 27, 2015 · Updated Jan 27, 2015

Ecosystem: Oracle Linux

Summary

Oracle Linux 7:
[2.17-55.0.4.el7_0.5]
- Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions.
- Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and
1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported. (Jose E. Marchesi)

[2.17-55.5]
- Rebuild and run regression testing.

[2.17-55.4]
- Fix parsing of numeric hosts in gethostbyname_r (CVE-2015-0235, #1183535).

[2.17-55.3]
- Fix wordexp() to honour WRDE_NOCMD (CVE-2014-7817, #1170118)

[2.17-55.2]
- ftell: seek to end only when there are unflushed bytes (#1170187).

[2.17-55.1]
- Remove gconv transliteration loadable modules support (CVE-2014-5119,
- _nl_find_locale: Improve handling of crafted locale names (CVE-2014-0475,

Oracle Linux 6 :
[2.12-1.149.5]
- Fix parsing of numeric hosts in gethostbyname_r (CVE-2015-0235, #1183533).

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc 0:2.17-55.0.4.el7_0.5
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-common 0:2.17-55.0.4.el7_0.5
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-devel 0:2.17-55.0.4.el7_0.5
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-headers 0:2.17-55.0.4.el7_0.5
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-static 0:2.17-55.0.4.el7_0.5
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-utils 0:2.17-55.0.4.el7_0.5
Oracle Linux · 7 nscd 0:2.17-55.0.4.el7_0.5

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-0235 Public exploit EPSS 95%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the __nss_hostname_digits_dots function in glibc 2.2, and other 2.x versions before 2.18,…

    glibc Debian