SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1

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SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1

Summary: Security update for glibc

Details: This update for glibc fixes the following issues: - CVE-2015-7547: A stack-based buffer overflow in getaddrinfo allowed remote attackers to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code via crafted and timed DNS responses (bsc#961721) - CVE-2015-8777: Insufficient checking of LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable allowed local attackers to bypass the pointer guarding protection of the dynamic loader on set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs (bsc#950944) - CVE-2015-8776: Out-of-range time values passed to the strftime function may cause it to crash, leading to a denial of service, or potentially disclosure information (bsc#962736) - CVE-2015-8778: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could have caused an out-of-bound memory access. leading to application crashes or, potentially, arbitrary code execution (bsc#962737) - CVE-2014-9761: A stack overflow (unbounded alloca) could have caused applications which process long strings with the nan function to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (bsc#962738) - CVE-2015-8779: A stack overflow (unbounded alloca) in the catopen function could have caused applications which pass long strings to the catopen function to crash or, potentially execute arbitrary code. (bsc#962739) The following non-security bugs were fixed: - bsc#930721: Accept leading and trailing spaces in getdate input string - bsc#942317: Recognize power8 platform - bsc#950944: Always enable pointer guard - bsc#956988: Fix deadlock in __dl_iterate_phdr

References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20160472-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/930721, https://bugzilla.suse.com/942317, https://bugzilla.suse.com/950944, https://bugzilla.suse.com/956988, https://bugzilla.suse.com/961721, https://bugzilla.suse.com/962736, https://bugzilla.suse.com/962737, https://bugzilla.suse.com/962738, https://bugzilla.suse.com/962739, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9761, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7547, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8776, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8777, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8778, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8779