SUSE-SU-2015:0253-1

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    SUSE-SU-2015:0253-1

    Published: 29 Aug 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for glibc

    Details: This glibc update fixes a critical privilege escalation problem and two non-security issues: * bnc#892073: An off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in __gconv_translit_find(). An exploit that targets the problem is publicly available. (CVE-2014-5119) * bnc#892065: setenv-alloca.patch: Avoid unbound alloca in setenv. * bnc#888347: printf-multibyte-format.patch: Don't parse %s format argument as multi-byte string. Security Issues: * CVE-2014-5119 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5119>

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2015/suse-su-20150253-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/691365, https://bugzilla.suse.com/779320, https://bugzilla.suse.com/791928, https://bugzilla.suse.com/801246, https://bugzilla.suse.com/811979, https://bugzilla.suse.com/813121, https://bugzilla.suse.com/819347, https://bugzilla.suse.com/822210, https://bugzilla.suse.com/827811, https://bugzilla.suse.com/828235, https://bugzilla.suse.com/828637, https://bugzilla.suse.com/830268, https://bugzilla.suse.com/834594, https://bugzilla.suse.com/836746, https://bugzilla.suse.com/839870, https://bugzilla.suse.com/844309, https://bugzilla.suse.com/847227, https://bugzilla.suse.com/854445, https://bugzilla.suse.com/863499, https://bugzilla.suse.com/864081, https://bugzilla.suse.com/872832, https://bugzilla.suse.com/882028, https://bugzilla.suse.com/882600, https://bugzilla.suse.com/883217, https://bugzilla.suse.com/886416, https://bugzilla.suse.com/887022, https://bugzilla.suse.com/888347, https://bugzilla.suse.com/891843, https://bugzilla.suse.com/892065, https://bugzilla.suse.com/892073, https://bugzilla.suse.com/894553, https://bugzilla.suse.com/894556, https://bugzilla.suse.com/903288, https://bugzilla.suse.com/904461, https://bugzilla.suse.com/906371, https://bugzilla.suse.com/909053, https://bugzilla.suse.com/913646, https://bugzilla.suse.com/915526, https://bugzilla.suse.com/916222, https://bugzilla.suse.com/917072, https://bugzilla.suse.com/919678, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4412, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6656, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0242, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1914, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4237, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4332, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4357, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4458, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4788, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-7423, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0475, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4043, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5119, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6040, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7817, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9402, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0235, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1472

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High