Fedora 38: glibc 2023-2b8c11ee75
Summary
The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by
multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and
memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is
kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package
contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C
library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a
Linux system will not function.
Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2023-4911, CVE-2023-4806, and CVE-2023-4527. CVE-2023-4911: If a tunable of the form NAME=NAME=VAL is passed in the environment of a setuid program and NAME is valid, it may result in a buffer overflow, which could be exploited to achieve escalated privileges. This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.34. CVE-2023-4806: When an NSS plugin only implements the _gethostbyname2_r and _getcanonname_r callbacks, getaddrinfo could use memory that was freed during buffer resizing, potentially causing a crash or read or write to arbitrary memory. CVE-2023-4527: If the system is configured in no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf, getaddrinfo is called for the AF_UNSPEC address family, and a DNS response is received over TCP that is larger than 2048 bytes, getaddrinfo may potentially disclose stack contents via the returned address data, or crash. ---- This update contains [changes to ELF destructor ordering](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30869), ...
Change Log
* Tue Oct 3 2023 Arjun Shankar
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2234712 - CVE-2023-4527 glibc: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234712
[ 2 ] Bug #2237782 - CVE-2023-4806 glibc: potential use-after-free in getaddrinfo()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237782
[ 3 ] Bug #2238352 - CVE-2023-4911 glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238352
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-2b8c11ee75' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html