Security update for glibc

SUSE Security Update: Security update for glibc
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1488-1
Rating: low
References: #676178 #753756 #760216 #770891
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4
  • SLE SDK 10 SP4

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

    Description:


    This collective update to the GNU Lib C library (glibc)
    provides the following fixes:

    * Make addmntent() return errors also for cached
    streams (bnc#676178, CVE-2011-1089)
    * Fix overflows in vfprintf() (bnc#770891,
    CVE-2012-3406)
    * Fix incomplete results from nscd (bnc#753756)
    * Fix a deadlock in dlsym in case the symbol isn't
    found, for multi-threaded programs (bnc #760216).

    Security Issues:

    * CVE-2011-1089
    >
    * CVE-2012-3406
    >

    Contraindications:

    None

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 i686 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):
    • glibc-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-devel-2.4-31.103.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):
    • glibc-html-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-i18ndata-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-info-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-locale-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-profile-2.4-31.103.1
    • nscd-2.4-31.103.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (s390x x86_64):
    • glibc-32bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-devel-32bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-locale-32bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-profile-32bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ia64):
    • glibc-locale-x86-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-profile-x86-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-x86-2.4-31.103.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ppc):
    • glibc-64bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-devel-64bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-locale-64bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-profile-64bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 i686 x86_64):
    • glibc-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-devel-2.4-31.103.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64):
    • glibc-html-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-i18ndata-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-info-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-locale-2.4-31.103.1
    • nscd-2.4-31.103.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (x86_64):
    • glibc-32bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-devel-32bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-locale-32bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):
    • glibc-dceext-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-html-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-profile-2.4-31.103.1
    • SLE SDK 10 SP4 (s390x x86_64):
    • glibc-dceext-32bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-profile-32bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • SLE SDK 10 SP4 (ia64):
    • glibc-dceext-x86-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-profile-x86-2.4-31.103.1
    • SLE SDK 10 SP4 (ppc):
    • glibc-dceext-64bit-2.4-31.103.1
    • glibc-profile-64bit-2.4-31.103.1

    References:

    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1089.html
    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3406.html
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/676178
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/753756
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/760216
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/770891
    • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=ae7b2bb12ddda522987dc10489bcbf1f