Security update for glibc

SUSE Security Update: Security update for glibc

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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

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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
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* CVE-2012-3406
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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