RHSA-2015:0327Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Published
March 5, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2014-6040 →CVE-2014-8121 →

📋 Description

CVE-2014-6040 — glibc: crash in code page decoding functions (IBM933, IBM935, IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364) CVE-2014-8121 — glibc: Unexpected closing of nss_files databases after lookups causes denial of service

🎯 Affected products120

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-78.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-78.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-78.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-78.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-78.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-78.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-78.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (9)