glibc: buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r() and related functions with misaligned buffer

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way glibc's gethostbynamer and other related functions computed the size of a buffer when passed a misaligned buffer as input. An attacker able to make an application call any of these functions with a misaligned buffer could use this flaw to crash the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: glibc-2.22-6.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...

Siemens SIMATIC HMI Basic, SINUMERIK, and Ruggedcom APE GHOST Vulnerability (Update A)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-15-064-01 Siemens SIMATIC HMI Basic, SINUMERIK, and Ruggedcom APE GHOST Vulnerability that was published March 5, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. The “GHOST”Further information about the GHOST vulnerability:...

Siemens SIMATIC HMI Basic, SINUMERIK, and Ruggedcom APE GHOST Vulnerability

OVERVIEW The “GHOST"Further information about the GHOST vulnerability: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-0235, web site last accessed March 05, 2015. vulnerability in the glibc library affects the Siemens SINUMERIK and SIMATIC HMI Basic applications. Siemens has produced an...

CentOS 7 : glibc (CESA-2015:2172)

Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from...

CentOS 7 : glibc (CESA-2015:2199)

Updated glibc packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement 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...

glibc, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:2172 Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...

glibc, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:2199 Updated glibc packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common...

Oracle Linux 7 : glibc (ELSA-2015-2199)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2199 advisory. - Backport fixes for various security flaws 1209107: - Prevent heap buffer overflow in swscanf CVE-2015-1472, CVE-2015-1473, - Prevent integer overflow...

Oracle Linux 7 : glibc (ELSA-2015-2172)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2172 advisory. 2.17-106.0.1.1 - Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions. - Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-2172)

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...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-2199)

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...

glibc security update

2.17-106.0.1.1 - Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions. - Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and 1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported. 2.17-106.1 - Rebuild with corrected release. 2.17-106 - Add fix for CVE-2015-5277 1275920...

glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.17-105.0.1 - Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions. - Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and 1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported. 2.17-105 - Fix up test case for initial-exec fix 1248208. 2.17-104 - Mark all TLS variables i...

RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2015:2172-01

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-2015:2172)

Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from...

RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2015:2199-07

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security update

Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from...

glibc: heap buffer overflow in glibc swscanf

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in glibc's swscanf function. An attacker able to make an application call the swscanf function could use this flaw to crash that application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application...

glibc: Stack-overflow in glibc swscanf

A stack overflow flaw was found in glibc's swscanf function. An attacker able to make an application call the swscanf function could use this flaw to crash that application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application...