SUSE-SU-2016:1721-1

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / SUSE-SU-2016:1721-1

    SUSE-SU-2016:1721-1

    Published: 30 Jun 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for glibc

    Details: This update for glibc provides the following fixes: - Increase DTV_SURPLUS limit. (bsc#968787) - Do not copy d_name field of struct dirent. (CVE-2016-1234, bsc#969727) - Fix memory leak in _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. (bsc#973010) - Fix stack overflow in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r. (CVE-2016-3075, bsc#973164) - Fix malloc performance regression from SLE 11. (bsc#975930) - Fix getaddrinfo stack overflow in hostent conversion. (CVE-2016-3706, bsc#980483) - Do not use alloca in clntudp_call (CVE-2016-4429, bsc#980854)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20161721-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/968787, https://bugzilla.suse.com/969727, https://bugzilla.suse.com/973010, https://bugzilla.suse.com/973164, https://bugzilla.suse.com/975930, https://bugzilla.suse.com/980483, https://bugzilla.suse.com/980854, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1234, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3075, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3706, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4429

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: glibc

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/glibc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.19-22.16.2

    Affected versions

    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