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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-12132: glibc security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-12132: glibc security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/01/2017
Created
09/26/2019
Added
09/25/2019
Modified
09/25/2019

Description

The DNS stub resolver in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before version 2.26, when EDNS support is enabled, will solicit large UDP responses from name servers, potentially simplifying off-path DNS spoofing attacks due to IP fragmentation.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-static
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-nscd

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