Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security update

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support. 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 for ea...

glibc: getaddrinfo() writes DNS queries to random file descriptors under high load

It was discovered that, under certain circumstances, glibc's getaddrinfo function would send DNS queries to random file descriptors. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to send DNS queries to unintended recipients, resulting in information disclosure or data loss due to the application...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: glibc-2.22-17.fc23

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

RHEL 6 : glibc (RHSA-2016:1207)

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support. 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 for ea...

GNU C Library glob stack buffer overflow vulnerability

glibc is the libc library, or c runtime library, released by GNU. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the glob implementation of the GNU C Library glibc prior to version 2.24 when using GLOBALTDIRFUNC. An attacker can cause a denial of service via a long name...

CVE-2016-3075

Stack-based buffer overflow in the nssdns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library aka glibc before 2.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and application crash via a long name...

Stack overflow

Stack-based buffer overflow in the nssdns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library aka glibc before 2.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and application crash via a long name...

Stack overflow

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library aka glibc before 2.24, when GLOBALTDIRFUNC is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a long name...

CVE-2016-3075

CVE-2016-3075 is a stack-based overflow in glibc’s nss_dns getnetbyname implementation (getnetbyname/getnetbyname_r) that can be triggered by excessively long network names, leading to stack consumption and application crash (denial of service). Connected documents identify the vulnerability as a...

CVE-2016-3075

Stack-based buffer overflow in the nssdns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library aka glibc before 2.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and application crash via a long name...

CVE-2016-1234

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library aka glibc before 2.24, when GLOBALTDIRFUNC is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a long name...

CVE-2016-1234

CVE-2016-1234 affects the glibc glob implementation prior to 2.24, where a stack-based buffer overflow occurs when GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is used with long names. This can crash the process (DoS). Remediation: upgrade glibc to 2.24 or newer (or apply vendor-specific patches). The CVE is corroborated by ...

CVE-2016-1234

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library aka glibc before 2.24, when GLOBALTDIRFUNC is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a long name...

CVE-2016-1234

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library aka glibc before 2.24, when GLOBALTDIRFUNC is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a long name...

SOL31211252 - glibc vulnerability CVE-2014-9761

Vulnerability Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2985-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

USN-2985-2 eglibc, glibc regression

USN-2985-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. The fix for CVE-2014-9761 introduced a regression which affected applications that use the libm library but were not fully restarted after the upgrade. This update removes the fix for CVE-2014-9761 and a future update will be provided to...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2985-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Multiple Intel Software Products and Services impacted by CVE-2015-7547

Summary: Intel Software Products and Services that rely on glibc may be indirectly impacted by CVE-2015-7547. Description: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the 1 senddg and 2 sendvc functions in the libresolv library in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 prior to version 2.23 allow remo...

USN-2985-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Martin Carpenter discovered that ptchown in the GNU C Library did not properly check permissions for tty files. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-2207, CVE-2016-2856 Robin Hack discovered that the Name Service Switch NSS...