SUSE-SU-2017:1619-1

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    SUSE-SU-2017:1619-1

    Published: 19 Jun 2017Last Modified: 2 May 2025

    Summary: Security update for glibc

    Details: This update for glibc fixes the following issues: - CVE-2017-1000366: Fix a potential privilege escalation vulnerability that allowed unprivileged system users to manipulate the stack of setuid binaries to gain special privileges. [bsc#1039357] - A bug in glibc that could result in deadlocks between malloc() and fork() has been fixed. [bsc#1040043]

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20171619-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1039357, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1040043, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000366

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: glibc

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/glibc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.22-61.3

    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
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