Security update for glibc

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20038-1
Release Date: 2025-02-03T08:53:22Z
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2024-2961 ( SUSE ): 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
  • CVE-2024-2961 ( NVD ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
  • CVE-2024-33599 ( SUSE ): 7.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
  • CVE-2024-33599 ( NVD ): 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2024-33600 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2024-33600 ( NVD ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2024-33601 ( SUSE ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2024-33601 ( NVD ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
  • CVE-2024-33602 ( SUSE ): 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • CVE-2024-33602 ( NVD ): 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0

An update that solves five vulnerabilities and has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

Fixed security issues:

  • CVE-2024-33602: Use time_t for return type of addgetnetgrentX (bsc#1223425)
  • CVE-2024-33599: nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (bsc#1223423)
  • CVE-2024-33600: nscd: Avoid null pointer crashes after notfound response (bsc#1223424)
  • CVE-2024-33600: nscd: Do not send missing not-found response in addgetnetgrentX (bsc#1223424)
  • CVE-2024-33601, CVE-2024-33602: netgroup: Use two buffers in addgetnetgrentX (bsc#1223425)
  • CVE-2024-2961: iconv: ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape sequence (bsc#1222992)

Fixed non-security issues:

  • Add workaround for invalid use of libc_nonshared.a with non-SUSE libc (bsc#1221482)
  • Fix segfault in wcsncmp (bsc#1228041)
  • Also include stat64 in the 32-bit libc_nonshared.a workaround (bsc#1221482)
  • Avoid creating ULP prologue for _start routine (bsc#1221940)
  • Also add libc_nonshared.a workaround to 32-bit x86 compat package (bsc#1221482)
  • malloc: Use __get_nprocs on arena_get2
  • linux: Use rseq area unconditionally in sched_getcpu

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-32=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    • glibc-2.38-7.1
    • glibc-locale-2.38-7.1
    • glibc-locale-base-2.38-7.1
    • glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.38-7.1
    • glibc-debuginfo-2.38-7.1
    • glibc-locale-base-debuginfo-2.38-7.1
    • glibc-debugsource-2.38-7.1
    • glibc-devel-2.38-7.1

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