Re: [CentOS] Regarding CVE-2015-1781 vulnerability in Glibc

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Venkateswara Rao Dokku dvrao.584@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

Where can we get the info regarding whether its fixed in CentOS 5 or not?

I did rpm -q --changelog <glibc> | grep <CVE>

but I dont find any info on this.

This might means 3 things.

1. The version is not affected so no fix
2. The version is affected, still no fix
3. Fix applied, but not shown in o/p

Thanks

We don't know. Red Hat has only mentioned RHEL 6. When vulnerabilities are found in CentOS 5 which they consider not be important enough to fix they usually mention that in the errata.

According to upstream the bug was introduced in glibc 2.6 so if CentOS 5 has 2.5 then it might be just enough too old. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287

Not affected so no fix sounds most plausible.

John