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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.123952
Category:Oracle Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2012-0393)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'glibc' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2012-0393 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'glibc' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2012-0393 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
[2.12-1.47.el6_2.9]
- Always use another area after a failed allocation in the
main arena (#795328)
- Remove sse3 memcpy (#695812) changes (#799259)

[2.12-1.47.el6_2.8]
- Avoid nargs integer overflow which could be used to bypass FORTIFY_SOURCE (#794815)

[2.12-1.47.el6_2.7]
- Fix locking on malloc family retry paths (#795328)

[2.12-1.47.el6_2.6]
- Fix cycle detection in dynamic loader (#783999)

Affected Software/OS:
'glibc' package(s) on Oracle Linux 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-0864
52201
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52201
RHSA-2012:0393
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html
RHSA-2012:0397
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.html
RHSA-2012:0488
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html
RHSA-2012:0531
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html
[libc-alpha] 20120202 [PATCH] vfprintf: validate nargs and positional offsets
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00023.html
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766
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