Executive Summary
This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
| Summary | |
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| Title | glibc security and bug fix update |
| Informations | |||
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| Name | RHSA-2013:1411 | First vendor Publication | 2013-10-08 |
| Vendor | RedHat | Last vendor Modification | 2013-10-08 |
| Severity (Vendor) | Moderate | Revision | 01 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
| Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores | |||
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
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| Cvss Base Score | 4.3 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Problem Description: Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 3. Description: The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the Name Server Caching Daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly. Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in glibc's memory allocator functions (pvalloc, valloc, and memalign). If an application used such a function, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-4332) This update also fixes the following bug: * Prior to this update, the size of the L3 cache in certain CPUs for SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) servers was not correctly detected. The incorrect cache size detection resulted in less than optimal performance for routines that used this information, including the memset() function. To fix this bug, the cache size detection has been corrected and core routines including memset() have their performance restored to expected levels. (BZ#1011424) All glibc users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1007545 - CVE-2013-4332 glibc: three integer overflows in memory allocator |
Original Source
| Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1411.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
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| 100 % | CWE-189 | Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19151 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19151 | ||
| Title: | USN-1991-1 -- eglibc vulnerabilities | ||
| Description: | Several security issues were fixed in the GNU C Library. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-1991-1 CVE-2012-4412 CVE-2012-4424 CVE-2013-0242 CVE-2013-1914 CVE-2013-4237 CVE-2013-4332 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 13.04 Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04 Ubuntu 10.04 | Product(s): | eglibc |
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26244 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26244 | ||
| Title: | RHSA-2013-1605: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Moderate) | ||
| Description: | Updated glibc packages that fix three security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | RHSA-2013:1605-02 CESA-2013:1605 CVE-2013-0242 CVE-2013-1914 CVE-2013-4332 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 CentOS Linux 6 | Product(s): | glibc |
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26695 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26695 | ||
| Title: | DEPRECATED: RHSA-2013:1605 -- glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Moderate) | ||
| Description: | The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the Name Server Caching Daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly. Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in glibc's memory allocator functions (pvalloc, valloc, and memalign). If an application used such a function, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-4332) A flaw was found in the regular expression matching routines that process multibyte character input. If an application utilized the glibc regular expression matching mechanism, an attacker could provide specially-crafted input that, when processed, would cause the application to crash. (CVE-2013-0242) It was found that getaddrinfo() did not limit the amount of stack memory used during name resolution. An attacker able to make an application resolve an attacker-controlled hostname or IP address could possibly cause the application to exhaust all stack memory and crash. (CVE-2013-1914) Among other changes, this update includes an important fix for the following bug: * Due to a defect in the initial release of the getaddrinfo() system call in Red Hat enterprise Linux 6.0, AF_INET and AF_INET6 queries resolved from the /etc/hosts file returned queried names as canonical names. This incorrect behavior is, however, still considered to be the expected behavior. As a result of a recent change in getaddrinfo(), AF_INET6 queries started resolving the canonical names correctly. However, this behavior was unexpected by applications that relied on queries resolved from the /etc/hosts file, and these applications could thus fail to operate properly. This update applies a fix ensuring that AF_INET6 queries resolved from /etc/hosts always return the queried name as canonical. Note that DNS lookups are resolved properly and always return the correct canonical names. A proper fix to AF_INET6 queries resolution from /etc/hosts may be applied in future releases; for now, due to a lack of standard, Red Hat suggests the first entry in the /etc/hosts file, that applies for the IP address being resolved, to be considered the canonical entry. (BZ#1022022) These updated glibc packages also include additional bug fixes and various enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical Notes, linked to in the References, for information on the most significant of these changes. All glibc users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | RHSA-2013:1605 CESA-2013:1605 CVE-2013-0242 CVE-2013-1914 CVE-2013-4332 | Version: | 4 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 CentOS Linux 6 | Product(s): | glibc |
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27188 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27188 | ||
| Title: | ELSA-2013-1605 -- glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (moderate) | ||
| Description: | [2.12-1.132] - Revert the addition of gettimeofday vDSO function for ppc and ppc64 until OPD VDSO function call issues are resolved (#1026533). | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | ELSA-2013-1605 CVE-2013-0242 CVE-2013-1914 CVE-2013-4332 | Version: | 3 |
| Platform(s): | Oracle Linux 6 | Product(s): | glibc |
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27411 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27411 | ||
| Title: | DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013-1411 -- glibc security and bug fix update (moderate) | ||
| Description: | [2.5-118.2] - Fix integer overflows in *valloc and memalign. (#1011804). [2.5-118.1] - Add support for newer L3 caches on x86-64 and correctly count the number of hardware threads sharing a cacheline (#1011424). | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | ELSA-2013-1411 CVE-2013-4332 | Version: | 4 |
| Platform(s): | Oracle Linux 5 | Product(s): | glibc |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)
| Date | Description |
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| 2015-06-25 | IAVM : 2015-B-0083 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0060983 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015-12-30 | Name : The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch. File : vmware_VMSA-2014-0002_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-05-22 | Name : The remote VMware ESXi 5.5 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. File : vmware_esxi_5_5_build_1623387_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-05-20 | Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_SU-2014-1128-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-05-20 | Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_SU-2014-1122-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-03-26 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update. File : debian_DLA-165.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-03-09 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201503-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-02-02 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0024.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-02-02 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0023.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-12-12 | Name : The remote VMware ESXi 5.1 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. File : vmware_esxi_5_1_build_2323236_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-11-12 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2013-1605.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-11-12 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2013-1411.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-11-08 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update. File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1527.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2013-723.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-03-12 | Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat... File : vmware_VMSA-2014-0002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-12-23 | Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update. File : ala_ALAS-2013-270.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-12-10 | Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_11_glibc-130917.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-12-10 | Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_11_glibc-130913.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-12-04 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20131121_glibc_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-11-27 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1605.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-11-26 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-283.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-11-21 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1605.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-10-22 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-1991-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-10-11 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20131008_glibc_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-10-10 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1411.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-10-09 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1411.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-09-28 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2013-17475.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-09-27 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2013-17423.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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