An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes is now available.
Description:
This glibc update fixes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability and the following security and non-security issues:
* bnc#892073: An off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in __gconv_translit_find(). An exploit that targets the problem is publicly available. (CVE-2014-5119) * bnc#886416: Avoid redundant shift character in iconv output at block boundary. * bnc#883022: Initialize errcode in sysdeps/unix/opendir.c. * bnc#882600: Copy filename argument in posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen. (CVE-2014-4043) * bnc#864081: Take lock in pthread_cond_wait cleanup handler only when needed. * bnc#843735: Don't crash on unresolved weak symbol reference. * bnc#839870: Fix integer overflows in malloc. (CVE-2013-4332) * bnc#836746: Avoid race between {,__de}allocate_stack and __reclaim_stacks during fork. * bnc#834594: Fix readdir_r with long file names. (CVE-2013-4237) * bnc#830268: Initialize pointer guard also in static executables. (CVE-2013-4788) * bnc#801246: Fix buffer overrun in regexp matcher. (CVE-2013-0242) * bnc#779320: Fix buffer overflow in strcoll. (CVE-2012-4412) * bnc#750741: Use absolute timeout in x86 pthread_cond_timedwait.
