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SUSE-SU-2015:0253-1 Not scored

Security update for glibc

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>

Exploit probability Not scored
Published August 29, 2014
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

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Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2015:0253-1

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>

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