[Emergency countermeasure]: UNIX (Linux) Users – Please apply “glibc” library security patch!

If you use UNIX OS (including Linux), please apply “glibc” security patch (CVE-2015-0235) as soon as possible. “glibc” library is used by most UNIX OS and software, so the influent area is huge!

About the detail information, please see the following related information.

Related Information

• Linux “Ghost” Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (US-CERT)

Operation for applying the patch (Redhat Linux with yum)

1. yum update glibc
2. reboot
3. more /etc/sysconfig/clock
   Please check the timezone.

Security Patch Information (Redhat Linux)

• Redhat Linux ES 5: glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0090.html
• Redhat Linux ES 6: glibc-2.12-1.149: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0092.html

29th January, 2015 Chief of Information Processing Office: Kitani.