Security update for glibc
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2026:20178-1 |
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| Release Date: | 2026-01-29T16:16:14Z |
| Rating: | important |
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An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one fix can now be installed.
Description:
This update for glibc fixes the following issues:
Security fixes:
- CVE-2025-0395: Fixed buffer overflow in the assert() function (bsc#1236282).
- CVE-2026-0861: Fixed inadequate size check in the memalign suite may result in an integer overflow (bsc#1256766).
- CVE-2026-0915: Fixed uninitialized stack buffer used as DNS query name when net==0 in _nss_dns_getnetbyaddr_r (bsc#1256822).
- CVE-2025-15281: Fixed uninitialized memory may cause the process abort (bsc#1257005).
Other fixes:
- NPTL: Optimize trylock for high cache contention workloads (bsc#1256436)
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:
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SUSE Linux Micro 6.2
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SL-Micro-6.2-218=1 -
SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.2
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SL-Micro-6.2-218=1
Package List:
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SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
- glibc-locale-base-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-debugsource-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-debuginfo-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-devel-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-locale-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.40-160000.3.1
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SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 (aarch64 x86_64)
- glibc-gconv-modules-extra-debuginfo-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-gconv-modules-extra-2.40-160000.3.1
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SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
- glibc-gconv-modules-extra-debuginfo-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-debuginfo-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-gconv-modules-extra-2.40-160000.3.1
- glibc-debugsource-2.40-160000.3.1
References:
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0395.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-15281.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0861.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0915.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236282
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256436
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256766
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256822
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257005