ELSA-2015-2199

ELSA-2015-2199 - glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type:	SECURITY
Severity:	MODERATE
Release Date:	2015-11-24

Description

[2.17-105.0.1]
- Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions.
- Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and
1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported.

[2.17-105]
- Fix up test case for initial-exec fix (#1248208).

[2.17-104]
- Mark all TLS variables in libc.so as initial-exec (#1248208).

[2.17-103]
- Apply correct fix for #1195672.

[2.17-102]
- Remove workaround for kernel netlink bug (#1089836).
- Use only 32-bit instructions in optimized 32-bit POWER functions (#1240796).

[2.17-101]
- Correct the AArch64 ABI baseline for libpthread (#1234622).

[2.17-100]
- Prevent tst-rec-dlopen from intermittently failing in parallel
builds due to a missing makefile dependency (#1225959).

[2.17-99]
- Increase AArch64 TLS descriptor performance (#1202952).

[2.17-98]
- Move arch-specific header files from glibc-headers to glibc-devel (#1230328).

[2.17-97]
- Rebase high-precision timing support for microbenchmark (#1214326).

[2.17-96]
- Rebase microbenchmarks from upstream for performance testing (#1214326)
- Fix running microbenchmark script bench.pl from source (#1084395)

[2.17-95]
- Enable systemtap support for all architectures (#1225490).

[2.17-94]
- Fix ruserok API scalability issues (#1216246).

[2.17-93]
- Backport fixes and enhancements for ppc64 and ppc64le (#1162895).
- Correct DT_PPC64_NUM in elf/elf.h.
- Correct IBM long double frexpl.
- Correct IBM long double nextafterl.

[2.17-92]
- Backport fixes for various security flaws (#1209107):
- Prevent heap buffer overflow in swscanf (CVE-2015-1472, CVE-2015-1473,
- Prevent integer overflow in _IO_wstr_overflow (#1195762).
- Prevent potential denial of service in internal_fnmatch (#1197730).
- Prevent buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions
with misaligned buffer (CVE-2015-1781, #1199525).

[2.17-91]
- Allow more shared libraries with static TLS to be loaded (#1227699).

[2.17-90]
- Work around kernel netlink bug on some specialized hardware setup (#1089836).
- Fix invalid file descriptor reuse when sending DNS query
(CVE-2013-7423, #1194143).
- Sync netinet/tcp.h with the kernel (#1219891).

[2.17-89]
- Avoid deadlock in malloc on backtrace (#1207032).
- Actually test iconv modules (#1176906).
- Use calloc to allocate xports (#1159169).
- Return EAI_AGAIN for AF_UNSPEC when herrno is TRY_AGAIN (#1098042).

[2.17-88]
- Add librtkaio.abilist generated by make update-abi (#1173238).

[2.18-87]
- Enhance nscd inotify support (#1193797).

[2.17-86]
- Use NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN to indicate insufficient buffer (#1173537).

[2.17-85]
- Skip logging for DNSSEC responses (#1186620).
- Also apply the RHEL6.7 Makerules patch (#1189278).

[2.17-84]
- Initialize nscd stats data (#1183456).

[2.17-83]
- Resize DTV if the current DTV isn't big enough (#1189278).

[2.17-82]
- Backport an alternate implementation of strstr and strcasestr for
x86 that doesn't use the stack for temporaries requiring 16-byte
alignment (#1150282).

[2.17-81]
- Fix recursive dlopen() (#1165212).
- Correctly size profiling reloc table (#1144133).

[2.17-80]
- Work around a suspected gcc 4.8 bug (#1064066).

[2.17-79]
- Restructure spec file to unconditionally apply ppc64le support (#1182355).
- Fix test failure in test-ildoubl on ppc64 (#1186491).

Related CVEs

CVE-2013-7423

CVE-2015-1781

CVE-2015-1472

CVE-2015-1473

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	MD5sum	Superseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)	glibc-2.17-105.0.1.el7.src.rpm	3c4890a7308ef9ee83ea37ee7177ddd2	ELBA-2021-9262
	glibc-2.17-105.0.1.el7.i686.rpm	0968bbeec1ef71866316085c6578ebd4	ELBA-2021-9262
	glibc-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm	3dbe7e9fa3c761749c1afb7b93de6cbc	ELBA-2021-9262
	glibc-common-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm	30818a0091230a8b48430c6dcd0f9e33	ELBA-2021-9262
	glibc-devel-2.17-105.0.1.el7.i686.rpm	40a0b8ea48fae325b9413020f1b8edd2	ELBA-2021-9262
	glibc-devel-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm	b33203c4cc74414245bebc8c44f6f8d1	ELBA-2021-9262
	glibc-headers-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm	b7d118dc798c76d03595714ae6096e89	ELBA-2021-9262
	glibc-static-2.17-105.0.1.el7.i686.rpm	5ea87a6dc0002dc3830d483863253274	ELBA-2021-9262
	glibc-static-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm	34d809ad9b4d6e057e772dd8d53a02a4	ELBA-2021-9262
	glibc-utils-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm	9d711ecd2c7bb296ee3f9ef100663140	ELBA-2021-9262
	nscd-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm	8d4af6693577470960789c67d2d979e7	ELBA-2021-9262

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