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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2432-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2432-1
Posted Dec 4, 2014
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2432-1 - Siddhesh Poyarekar discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Adhemerval Zanella Netto discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2012-6656, CVE-2014-6040, CVE-2014-7817
SHA-256 | ee9a58bff9d011d6367f3b45438ca35803c8316ec24d9da327b4cbbe7f9d4442

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2432-1

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2432-1
December 03, 2014

eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

The GNU C Library could be made to crash or run programs.

Software Description:
- glibc: GNU C Library
- eglibc: GNU C Library

Details:

Siddhesh Poyarekar discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled
certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause applications to crash, resulting in
a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu
12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-6656)

Adhemerval Zanella Netto discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly
handled certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-6040)

Tim Waugh discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly enforced the
WRDE_NOCMD flag when handling the wordexp function. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2014-7817)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
libc6 2.19-10ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libc6 2.19-0ubuntu6.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libc6 2.15-0ubuntu10.9

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.19

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all
the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1
CVE-2012-6656, CVE-2014-6040, CVE-2014-7817

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/2.19-10ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/2.19-0ubuntu6.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/2.15-0ubuntu10.9
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/2.11.1-0ubuntu7.19
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