glibc, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:1208 Updated glibc packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS bas...

glibc, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:1207 Updated glibc packages that fix multiple security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security update

Updated glibc packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

glibc: Integer overflows, leading to stack-based buffer overflows in strto* related routines

Multiple integer overflows in the 1 strtod, 2 strtof, 3 strtold, 4 strtodl, and other unspecified "related functions" in stdlib in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.16 allow local users to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Updated glibc packages that fix multiple security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severit...

glibc security and bug fix update

2.5-81.el58.7 - Fix out of bounds array access in strto exposed by 847929 patch. 2.5-81.el58.6 - Fix integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in strto 847929 2.5-81.el58.5 - Do not use PTIEEEIP ptrace calls 839411 - Update ULPs 839411 - Fix various transcendentals in non-default rounding modes...

glibc security update

2.12-1.80.el63.5 - Fix integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in strto and related out of bounds array index 847931...

Integer overflow

Multiple integer overflows in the 1 strtod, 2 strtof, 3 strtold, 4 strtodl, and other unspecified "related functions" in stdlib in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.16 allow local users to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which...

CVE-2012-3480

CVE-2012-3480 affects the GNU C Library (glibc/eglibc). Reports in connected documents describe multiple integer overflows in parser/conversion routines (strtod, strtof, strtold, strtod_l, and related functions) that can enable a local user to cause an application crash or possibly execute arbitr...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor6 security and bug fix update

An updated rhev-hypervisor6 package that fixes multiple security issues and various bugs is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

glibc: incorrect use of extend_alloca() in formatted printing can lead to FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection bypass

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library aka glibc 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFYSOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service segmentati...

(RHSA-2012:1185) Moderate: rhev-hypervisor5 security and bug fix update

The rhev-hypervisor5 package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM hypervisor. It includes everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: A subset of the Re...

Fedora 17 : glibc-2.15-56.fc17 (2012-11927)

Fix integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in strto 847718 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: glibc-2.15-56.fc17

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: glibc-2.15-54.fc17

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...

GNU glibc - Multiple Local Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

GNU glibc - Multiple Local Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54982/info GNU glibc is prone to multiple stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data. Local attackers can explo...

GNU glibc - Multiple Local Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54982/info GNU glibc is prone to multiple stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data. Local attackers can exploit these issues to run arbitrary code with privileges of the...

SuSE Update for glibc openSUSE-SU-2012:0064-1 (glibc)

Check for the Version of glibc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse201200641.nasl 8253 2017-12-28 06:29:51Z teissa $ SuSE Update for glibc openSUSE-SU-2012:0064-1 glibc Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for glibc (openSUSE-SU-2012:0064-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120718)

The glibc packages provide the standard C and standard math libraries used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function properly. Multiple errors in glibc's formatted printing functionality could allow an attacker to bypass FORTIFYSOURCE protection...