Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security update
Updated glibc packages are available to fix a buffer overflow in the resolver.
describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2002-1146US | medium5.0 | — | ||
The BIND 4 and BIND 8.2.x stub resolver libraries, and other libraries such as glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, libc, and libresolv, use the maximum buffer size instead of the actual size… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/738331external
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003:022self
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderateexternal
- 65816external
- 70463external
- 74742external
- 76952external
- Canonical URLself
remediations (2)
- FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. 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 This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003:022 - FixedRed Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. 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 This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003:022
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