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SUSE-SU-2015:1844-1 Not scored

Security update for glibc

glibc was updated to fix bugs and security issues. Security issues fixed: * A buffer overflow in nss_dns was fixed that could lead to crashes. (CVE-2015-1781, bsc#927080, BZ #18287) * A denial of service attack (out of memory) in the NSS files backend was fixed (CVE-2014-8121, bsc#918187, GLIBC BZ #18007) Non security bugs fixed: * Fix regression in threaded application malloc performance (bsc#915955, GLIBC#17195) * Fix read past end of pattern in fnmatch (bsc#920338, GLIBC#17062, GLIBC#18032, GLIBC#18036) * Record TTL also for DNS PTR queries (bsc#928723, GLIBC#18513) * Increase MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ for aarch64 (bsc#931480, GLIBC#16850) * Fix handling of IPv6 nameservers (bsc#939211, GLIBC#13028, GLIBC#17053) * Avoid use of asm/ptrace.h (bsc#934084) * Do not corrupt the top of a threaded heap if top chunk is MINSIZE (GLIBC#18502) * Terminate unwinding after makecontext_ret on s390 (bsc#940332. bsc#944494, GLIBC#18508) * Restore signal mask in set/swapcontext on s390 (bsc#940195, bsc#944494, GLIBC#18080) * fix dlopen in static binaries (bsc#937853, GLIBC#17250) * Properly reread entry after failure in nss_files getent function (bsc#945779, BZ #18991) Features added: * AVX512 support (fate#318844) * Add compatibility symlinks for LSB 3.0 (fate#318933)

Exploit probability Not scored
Published September 24, 2015
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 glibc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 glibc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 glibc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 glibc

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2015:1844-1

glibc was updated to fix bugs and security issues. Security issues fixed: * A buffer overflow in nss_dns was fixed that could lead to crashes. (CVE-2015-1781, bsc#927080, BZ #18287) * A denial of service attack (out of memory) in the NSS files backend was fixed (CVE-2014-8121, bsc#918187, GLIBC BZ #18007) Non security bugs fixed: * Fix regression in threaded application malloc performance (bsc#915955, GLIBC#17195) * Fix read past end of pattern in fnmatch (bsc#920338, GLIBC#17062, GLIBC#18032, GLIBC#18036) * Record TTL also for DNS PTR queries (bsc#928723, GLIBC#18513) * Increase MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ for aarch64 (bsc#931480, GLIBC#16850) * Fix handling of IPv6 nameservers (bsc#939211, GLIBC#13028, GLIBC#17053) * Avoid use of asm/ptrace.h (bsc#934084) * Do not corrupt the top of a threaded heap if top chunk is MINSIZE (GLIBC#18502) * Terminate unwinding after makecontext_ret on s390 (bsc#940332. bsc#944494, GLIBC#18508) * Restore signal mask in set/swapcontext on s390 (bsc#940195, bsc#944494, GLIBC#18080) * fix dlopen in static binaries (bsc#937853, GLIBC#17250) * Properly reread entry after failure in nss_files getent function (bsc#945779, BZ #18991) Features added: * AVX512 support (fate#318844) * Add compatibility symlinks for LSB 3.0 (fate#318933)

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05 / REFERENCES

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