RHSA-2016:0176Critical

Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Published
February 16, 2016
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2015-5229 →CVE-2015-7547 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-5229 — glibc: calloc may return non-zero memory CVE-2015-7547 — glibc: getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow

🎯 Affected products131

  • 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-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (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 (7)