suse-su-2015:1637-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2015-09-14 17:05
Modified
2015-09-14 17:05
Summary
Security update for coreutils

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for coreutils
Description of the patch
This update for coreutils provides the following fixes: - Fix memory handling error with case insensitive sort using UTF-8. (CVE-2015-4041, CVE-2015-4042) - Ensure 'df -a' shows all remote file system entries. - Only suppress remote mounts of separate exports with 'df --total'. - Document that 'df -a' might list duplicated file systems. - Adjust references to info nodes in man pages.
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-599,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-599
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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