Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71435
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2012:1097
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2012:1097. 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. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1097.html Risk factor : Medium
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-3406 GLSA-201503-04 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 RHSA-2012:1097 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1097.html RHSA-2012:1098 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1098.html RHSA-2012:1185 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1185.html RHSA-2012:1200 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1200.html USN-1589-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1 [oss-security] 20120711 Re: CVE request: glibc formatted printing vulnerabilities http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/17 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=594722 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826943
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