Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-8983

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Integer overflow in the IOwstroverflow function in libio/wstrops.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cau...

K39204079: GNU C Library vulnerability CVE-2015-8983

Security Advisory Description Integer overflow in the IOwstroverflow function in libio/wstrops.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to computin...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2022:14923-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2022:14923-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:14923-1 advisory. - Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a...

USN-3239-2: GNU C Library Regression | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3239-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2015-5180 introduced an internal ABI change within the resolver library. Original advisory details: It was discovered...

USN-3239-3: GNU C Library regression

USN-3239-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2016-3706 introduced a regression that in some circumstances prevented IPv6 addresses from resolving. This update reverts the change in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. We apologize for the error. Original advisory details: It...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : eglibc regression (USN-3239-3)

USN-3239-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2016-3706 introduced a regression that in some circumstances prevented IPv6 addresses from resolving. This update reverts the change in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. We apologize for the error. It was discovered that the GN...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GNU C Library Regression (USN-3239-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3239-2 advisory. USN-3239-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2015-5180 introduced an internal ABI change within the resolver...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3239-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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-3239-2: GNU C Library Regression

USN-3239-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2015-5180 introduced an internal ABI change within the resolver library. This update reverts the change. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please note that long-running services that were restarted to compensa...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-3239-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3239-1 advisory. It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the strxfrm function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of...

CVE-2015-8983

Integer overflow in the IOwstroverflow function in libio/wstrops.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to computing a size in bytes, which...

CVE-2015-8983

CVE-2015-8983 describes an Integer overflow in glibc's _IO_wstr_overflow (libio/wstrops.c) prior to version 2.22 that can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, potentially causing an application crash or arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. Affected: GNU C Library (glibc) before 2.2...