Mageia alert MGASA-2015-0072 (glibc)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2015-0072: Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities 
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Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:38:40 +0100
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MGASA-2015-0072 - Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 17 Feb 2015
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0072.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4
CVE: CVE-2015-1472,
     CVE-2015-1473

Description:
Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate too little memory for the
to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the allocated buffer (CVE-2015-1472).

The incorrect use of "__libc_use_alloca (newsize)" caused a different
(and weaker) policy to be enforced which could allow a denial of service
attack (CVE-2015-1473).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15259
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/04/1
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1472
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1473

SRPMS:
- 4/core/glibc-2.18-9.9.mga4