Synopsis:          Moderate: glibc security and bug fix update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2015:0327-2
Issue Date:        2015-03-05
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2014-6040
                   CVE-2014-8121
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An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way glibc's iconv() function
converted certain encoded data to UTF-8. An attacker able to make an
application call the iconv() function with a specially crafted argument
could use this flaw to crash that application. (CVE-2014-6040)

It was found that the files back end of Name Service Switch (NSS) did not
isolate iteration over an entire database from key-based look-up API
calls. An application performing look-ups on a database while iterating
over it could enter an infinite loop, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-8121)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

* Due to problems with buffer extension and reallocation, the nscd daemon
terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when processing long
netgroup entries. With this update, the handling of long netgroup entries
has been corrected and nscd no longer crashes in the described scenario.

* If a file opened in append mode was truncated with the ftruncate()
function, a subsequent ftell() call could incorrectly modify the file
offset. This update ensures that ftell() modifies the stream state only
when it is in append mode and the buffer for the stream is not empty.

* A defect in the C library headers caused builds with older compilers to
generate incorrect code for the btowc() function in the older
compatibility C++ standard library. Applications calling btowc() in the
compatibility C++ standard library became unresponsive. With this update,
the C library headers have been corrected, and the compatibility C++
standard library shipped with Scientific Linux has been rebuilt.
Applications that rely on the compatibility C++ standard library no longer
hang when calling btowc().

* Previously, when using netgroups and the nscd daemon was set up to cache
netgroup information, the sudo utility denied access to valid users. The
bug in nscd has been fixed, and sudo now works in netgroups as expected.
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SL7
  x86_64
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-78.el7.i686.rpm
    glibc-debuginfo-2.17-78.el7.x86_64.rpm
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-78.el7.i686.rpm
    glibc-debuginfo-common-2.17-78.el7.x86_64.rpm
    glibc-2.17-78.el7.i686.rpm
    glibc-2.17-78.el7.x86_64.rpm
    glibc-common-2.17-78.el7.x86_64.rpm
    glibc-devel-2.17-78.el7.i686.rpm
    glibc-devel-2.17-78.el7.x86_64.rpm
    glibc-headers-2.17-78.el7.x86_64.rpm
    glibc-utils-2.17-78.el7.x86_64.rpm
    nscd-2.17-78.el7.x86_64.rpm
    glibc-static-2.17-78.el7.i686.rpm
    glibc-static-2.17-78.el7.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team