RHSA-2015:1627Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security update

Published
August 17, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2013-7424 →

📋 Description

CVE-2013-7424 — glibc: Invalid-free when using getaddrinfo()

🎯 Affected products65

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-common-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • glibc-debuginfo-0:2.5-123.el5_11.3.s390 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. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (4)