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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2017-15670) (Multiple Advisories): glibc security and bug fix update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2017-15670) (Multiple Advisories): glibc security and bug fix update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/20/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/19/2018
Modified
06/26/2018

Description

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains an off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the glob function in glob.c, related to the processing of home directories using the ~ operator followed by a long string.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-static
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nscd

References

  • ELSA-2018-1879
  • 101521
  • RHSA-2018:0805
  • RHSA-2018:1879
  • CVE-2017-15670
  • USN-3534-1

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