RHSA-2019:2118Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Published
August 6, 2019
Last Modified
October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2016-10739 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-10739 — glibc: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing characters

🎯 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-0:2.17-292.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-0:2.17-292.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-292.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-292.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-292.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-292.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • glibc-common-0:2.17-292.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 For the update to take effect, all services linked to the glibc library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

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