Issued:
2021-08-03
Updated:
2021-08-03

RHSA-2021:2998 - Moderate: glibc security update

Synopsis

Moderate: glibc security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly.

Security Fix(es):

  • glibc: stack corruption from crafted input in cosl, sinl, sincosl, and tanl functions (CVE-2020-10029)

  • glibc: stack-based buffer overflow if the input to any of the printf family of functions is an 80-bit long double with a non-canonical bit pattern (CVE-2020-29573)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

For the update to take effect, all services linked to the glibc library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • glibc-debuginfo-2.17-292.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • glibc-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • glibc-static-2.17-292.el7_7.2.i686.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • glibc-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • glibc-headers-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • glibc-static-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • glibc-2.17-292.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.i686.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-2.17-292.el7_7.2.i686.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • glibc-static-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • glibc-utils-2.17-292.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • glibc-headers-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • glibc-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390.rpm
  • glibc-2.17-292.el7_7.2.i686.rpm
  • glibc-devel-2.17-292.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • glibc-utils-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390.rpm
  • glibc-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • glibc-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • glibc-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • glibc-devel-2.17-292.el7_7.2.i686.rpm
  • glibc-devel-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • glibc-headers-2.17-292.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • glibc-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • glibc-static-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • glibc-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • glibc-static-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • glibc-static-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390.rpm
  • glibc-static-2.17-292.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • glibc-utils-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • glibc-devel-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • glibc-devel-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • glibc-2.17-292.el7_7.2.src.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390.rpm
  • glibc-utils-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • nscd-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • nscd-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • glibc-devel-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390.rpm
  • nscd-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • nscd-2.17-292.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • glibc-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • glibc-headers-2.17-292.el7_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • glibc-devel-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-292.el7_7.2.ppc.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information