Debian Security Advisory DSA 3887-1 (glibc - security update)

The Qualys Research Labs discovered various problems in the dynamic linker of the GNU C Library which allow local privilege escalation by clashing the stack. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3887.nasl 6618 2017-07-07 14:17:52Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3887-1 using nvtgen 1.0...

GNU C Library Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

The GNU C Library a.k.a. glibc, libc6 is an open-source, free C language compiler released under the LGPL license. A remote denial of service vulnerability exists in nscd in versions of the GNU C Library prior to 2.20, which stems from the program's failure to correctly calculate the size of an...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9984

nscd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before version 2.20 does not correctly compute the size of an internal buffer when processing netgroup requests, possibly leading to an nscd daemon crash or code execution as the user running nscd...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9984

nscd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before version 2.20 does not correctly compute the size of an internal buffer when processing netgroup requests, possibly leading to an nscd daemon crash or code execution as the user running nscd...

CVE-2014-9984

nscd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before version 2.20 does not correctly compute the size of an internal buffer when processing netgroup requests, possibly leading to an nscd daemon crash or code execution as the user running nscd...

CVE-2014-9984

nscd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before version 2.20 does not correctly compute the size of an internal buffer when processing netgroup requests, possibly leading to an nscd daemon crash or code execution as the user running nscd...

BSA-2017-307

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-307 Component : libc Revision : 2.0: Interim Integer overflow in thestrxfrmfunction in the GNU C Library akaglibcor libc6 before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which...

CVE-2017-8804

DISPUTED The xdrbytes and xdrstring functions in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.25 mishandle failures of buffer deserialization, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service virtual memory allocation, or memory consumption if an overcommit setting is not used via a crafted U...

CVE-2017-8804

The xdrbytes and xdrstring functions in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.25 mishandle failures of buffer deserialization, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service virtual memory allocation, or memory consumption if an overcommit setting is not used via a crafted UDP packet...

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...

GNU glibc 'pop_fail_stack()' function denial of service vulnerability

GNU C Library is an open source, free C compiler released under the LGPL license. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'popfailstack' function in GNU C Library. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to submit a special request that would crash the application...

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...

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...

USN-3239-2 eglibc, glibc 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...

glibc: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r

An integer overflow vulnerability was found in hcreate and hcreater functions which could result in an out-of-bounds memory access. This could lead to application crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution...

USN-3239-1 eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the strxfrm function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-8982 It was discovered that an integer...

USN-3239-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the strxfrm function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-8982 It was discovered that an integer...

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...