[SECURITY] [DLA 316-1] eglibc security update

Package : eglibc Version : 2.11.3-4+deb6u7 CVE ID : CVE-2014-8121 Bug-Reference : 779587 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in eglibc that may lead to a privilege escalation or denial of service. Glibc pointer guarding weakness A weakness in the dynamic loader prior has been found. The...

DLA-316-1 eglibc - security update

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CVE-2014-8121

DBLOOKUP in nssfiles/files-XXX.c in the Name Service Switch NSS in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.21 and earlier does not properly check if a file is open, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop by performing a look-up on a database while iterating over it,...