RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2015:0327-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

RHEL 7 : glibc (RHSA-2015:0327)

Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

Fedora Update for glibc FEDORA-2015-2845

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora 20 : glibc-2.18-19.fc20 (2015-2845)

Fix CVE-2014-6040: crash in code page decoding functions IBM933, IBM935, IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 - Fix CVE-2014-7817: command execution in wordexp with WRDENOCMD specified Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 10259)

glibc has been updated to fix security issues and bugs : - Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules. CVE-2014-6040 / CVE-2012-6656, bsc894553, bsc894556, GLIBC BZ 17325, GLIBC BZ 14134 - Avoid infinite loop in nssdns getnetbyname. CVE-2014-9402 - Don't touch user-controlled stdio locks i...

Debian DSA-3142-1 : eglibc - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in eglibc, Debian's version of the GNU C library : - CVE-2015-0235 Qualys discovered that the gethostbyname and gethostbyname2 functions were subject to a buffer overflow if provided with a crafted IP address argument. This could be used by an attacker to...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3142-1 (eglibc - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in eglibc, Debian OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3142.nasl 6609 2017-07-07 12:05:59Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3142-1 using nvtgen 1.0 Script version: 1.0 Author: Greenbone Networks Copyright: Copyright c 2015 Greenbone Networks GmbH...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3142-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2015:0016-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

OracleVM 3.3 : glibc (OVMSA-2015-0003)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Fix recursive dlopen 1173469. - Fix typo in ressend and resquery rh1172023. - Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules CVE-2014-6040, 1139571. - Fix wordexp to honour WRDENOCMD CVE-2014-7817,...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2015-468)

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way glibc's iconv function converted certain encoded data to UTF-8. An attacker able to make an application call the iconv function with a specially crafted argument could use this flaw to crash that application. CVE-2014-6040 It was found that the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150107)

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way glibc's iconv function converted certain encoded data to UTF-8. An attacker able to make an application call the iconv function with a specially crafted argument could use this flaw to crash that application. CVE-2014-6040 It was found that the...

RHEL 6 : glibc (RHSA-2015:0016)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0016 advisory. The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries libc, POSIX thread libraries libpthread, standard math libraries libm, and the Name Serv...

Oracle Linux 6 : glibc (ELSA-2015-0016)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0016 advisory. - Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules CVE-2014-6040, 1139571. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

Medium: glibc

Issue Overview: An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way glibc's iconv function converted certain encoded data to UTF-8. An attacker able to make an application call the iconv function with a specially crafted argument could use this flaw to crash that application. CVE-2014-6040 It was fou...

glibc, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0016 Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

glibc security and bug fix update

2.12-1.149.4 - Fix recursive dlopen 1173469. 2.12-1.149.3 - Fix typo in ressend and resquery rh1172023. 2.12-1.149.2 - Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules CVE-2014-6040, 1139571. 2.12-1.149.1 - Fix wordexp to honour WRDENOCMD CVE-2014-7817, 1170121...

CVE-2014-6040

The CVE-2014-6040 issue affects the GNU C Library (glibc) prior to version 2.20. The vulnerability arises in iconv when converting certain multibyte data (notably IBM933/935/937/939/1364) to UTF-8, allowing a context-dependent attacker to trigger an out-of-bounds read and crash the process, i.e.,...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-2432-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2432-1 advisory. Siddhesh Poyarekar discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An attacker could...