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Critical ELSA-2016-0176 2 CVEs

Critical: glibc security and bug fix update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Feb 16, 2016 · Updated Feb 16, 2016

Summary

[2.17-106.0.1.4]
- Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions.
- Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and
1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported.

[2.17-106.4]
- Revert problematic libresolv change, not needed for the
CVE-2015-7547 fix (#1296030).

[2.17-106.3]
- Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer overflow (#1296030).
- Fix madvise performance issues (#1298930).
- Avoid 'monstartup: out of memory' error on powerpc64le (#1298956).

[2.17-106.2]
- Fix CVE-2015-5229: calloc() may return non-zero memory (#1296453).

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc 0:2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-common 0:2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-devel 0:2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-headers 0:2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-static 0:2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4
Oracle Linux · 7 glibc-utils 0:2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4
Oracle Linux · 7 nscd 0:2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Unscored —

    The calloc function in the glibc package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.2 does not properly initialize me…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-7547 Public exploit EPSS 92%

    Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the (1) send_dg and (2) send_vc functions in the libresolv library in the GNU …