RHSA-2013:0769Low

Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Published
April 24, 2013
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2013-0242 →CVE-2013-1914 →

📋 Description

CVE-2013-0242 — glibc: Buffer overrun (DoS) in regexp matcher by processing multibyte characters CVE-2013-1914 — glibc: Stack (frame) overflow in getaddrinfo() when processing entry mapping to long list of address structures

🎯 Affected products46

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-common-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-devel-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-devel-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-devel-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-devel-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-devel-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-devel-0:2.5-107.el5_9.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

🔗 References (7)