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Patch  oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20121097
RHSA-2012:1097: glibc security and bug fix update (Moderate)  

The glibc packages provide the standard C and standard math libraries used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function properly.
It was discovered that the formatted printing functionality in glibc did not properly restrict the use of alloca(). This could allow an attacker to bypass FORTIFY_SOURCE protections and execute arbitrary code using a format string flaw in an application, even though these protections are expected to limit the impact of such flaws to an application abort. (CVE-2012-3406)
This update also fixes the following bug:
* If a file or a string was in the IBM-930 encoding, and contained the invalid multibyte character "0xffff", attempting to use iconv() (or the iconv command) to convert that file or string to another encoding, such as UTF-8, resulted in a segmentation fault. With this update, the conversion code for the IBM-930 encoding recognizes this invalid character and calls an error handler, rather than causing a segmentation fault. (BZ#837896)
All users of glibc are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to fix these issues.
Create Date: 2012-07-18 Last Update Date: 2012-07-18

Affected Platforms/Products

Affected Products (CPE + CVE references)
Platforms: unix (from OVAL definitions)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

References

Criteria

The patch should be installed
IF : Any one of the following are true
IF : Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20070304026. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : All of the following are true
IF : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is installed
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20070331005. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : Any one of the following are true
IF : All of the following are true
IF : nscd is earlier than 0:2.5-81.el5_8.4
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20121097011. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : nscd is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease key
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20130022012. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : All of the following are true
IF : glibc-utils is earlier than 0:2.5-81.el5_8.4
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20121097009. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : glibc-utils is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease key
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20130022010. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : All of the following are true
IF : glibc-headers is earlier than 0:2.5-81.el5_8.4
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20121097007. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : glibc-headers is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease key
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20130022008. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : All of the following are true
IF : glibc-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease key
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20130022006. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : glibc-devel is earlier than 0:2.5-81.el5_8.4
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20121097005. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : All of the following are true
IF : glibc-common is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease key
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20130022004. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : glibc-common is earlier than 0:2.5-81.el5_8.4
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20121097003. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : All of the following are true
IF : glibc is earlier than 0:2.5-81.el5_8.4
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20121097001. Please see help for possible reasons
IF : glibc is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease key
WARNING! Unknown test oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20130022002. Please see help for possible reasons

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