CVE-2016-5417

Memory leak in the resvinit function in the IPv6 name server management code in libresolv in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures...

The vulnerability of the library that handles system calls and core functions of glibc allows a attacker to cause a service failure or increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the encodename function in the library that handles system calls and core glibc functions exists due to errors in processing new line characters in directory path names when using ncpmount and mount.cifs. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause service...

The vulnerabilities of the library that provides system calls and core functions in glibc allow a malicious actor to cause a service failure or execute arbitrary code.

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the functions senddg and sendvc of the libresolv module’s library, which provides system calls and core functions for the glibc library. These vulnerabilities allow a malicious actor to trigger service failures or execute arbitrary code through a specially crafte...

PT-2017-3961

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU C Library glibc versions 2.31 and earlier Description The issue is related to the iconv program in the GNU C Library. When invoked with multiple suffixes in the destination encoding along with the -c option, it enters an infinite loop when...

PT-2017-4212

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU C Library versions 2.19 through 2.26 Description The issue is related to the fillin rpath and decompose rpath functions in the GNU C Library, which mishandle RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for privileged programs. This allows a local...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7785

The avireadseek function in libavformat/avidec.c in FFmpeg before 3.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assert fault via a crafted AVI file...

Buffer Overflow in BSD libc Library Patched

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The library is part of the POSIX library, which is used in BSD operating systems, like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The libc library is also used in...

CentOS 6 / 7 : expat (CESA-2016:2824)

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available f...

expat security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:2824 An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whi...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available f...

PT-2017-9847 · None +3 · Musl Libc +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: TRE library versions affected versions not specified musl libc versions affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to multiple integer overflows in the TRE library and musl libc, which can be exploited by attackers to...

The vulnerabilities of the library that handles system calls and the core functions of glibc allow attackers to trigger a service failure.

The multiple vulnerabilities in the malloc/malloc.c file of the library that provides system calls and core functions of glibc are caused by integer overflows. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to trigger a service failure damage to dynamic memory by specifying an excessively...

The vulnerability of libraries that provide system calls and basic functions of glibc and eglibc allows attackers to control the execution of the thread.

The vulnerability of the PTRMANGLE implementation in libraries that provide system calls and core functions of glibc and eglibc is related to the improper initialization of a random value for pointer protection. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to control the execution of the thre...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: glibc-arm-linux-gnu-2.24-2.fc24

This is a Cross Compiled version of the GNU C Library, which can be used to compile and link binaries for the arm-linux-gnu platform, instead of for the native platform...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: glibc-arm-linux-gnu-2.24-2.fc25

This is a Cross Compiled version of the GNU C Library, which can be used to compile and link binaries for the arm-linux-gnu platform, instead of for the native platform...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: mingw-c-ares-1.12.0-1.fc24

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written by Greg Hudson at MIT...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: mingw-c-ares-1.12.0-1.fc25

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written by Greg Hudson at MIT...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: c-ares-1.12.0-1.fc25

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written by Greg Hudson at MIT...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6323

The makecontext function in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.25 creates execution contexts incompatible with the unwinder on ARM EABI 32-bit platforms, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service hang, as demonstrated by applications compiled using gccg...

CVE-2016-6323

The makecontext function in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.25 creates execution contexts incompatible with the unwinder on ARM EABI 32-bit platforms, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service hang, as demonstrated by applications compiled using gccg...