RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2017:1916-01

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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...

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-2985-2: GNU C Library regression

USN-2985-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. The fix for CVE-2014-9761 introduced a regression which affected applications that use the libm library but were not fully restarted after the upgrade. This update removes the fix for CVE-2014-9761 and a future update will be provided to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-2985-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2985-1 advisory. Martin Carpenter discovered that ptchown in the GNU C Library did not properly check permissions for tty files. A local attacker could use this to gain...

USN-2985-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Martin Carpenter discovered that ptchown in the GNU C Library did not properly check permissions for tty files. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-2207, CVE-2016-2856 Robin Hack discovered that the Name Service Switch NSS...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8778

Integer overflow in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the hcreater function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access...

openSUSE Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-2016-233)

This update for glibc fixes the following issues : - errorcheck-mutex-no-elision.patch: Don't do lock elision on an error checking mutex boo956716, BZ 17514 - reinitialize-dlloadwritelock.patch: Reinitialize dlloadwritelock on fork boo958315, BZ 19282 - send-dg-buffer-overflow.patch: Fix...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2016:0470-1)

This update for glibc fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-7547: A stack-based buffer overflow in getaddrinfo allowed remote attackers to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code via crafted and timed DNS responses bsc961721 - CVE-2015-8777: Insufficient checking of LDPOINTERGUARD environment...

Debian DSA-3481-1 : glibc - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in the GNU C Library, glibc. The first vulnerability listed below is considered to have critical impact. - CVE-2015-7547 The Google Security Team and Red Hat discovered that the glibc host name resolver function, getaddrinfo, when processing AFUNSPEC querie...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3481-1] glibc security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3481-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer February 16, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...