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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

It was discovered that, under certain circumstances, glibc's getaddrinfo function would send DNS queries to random file descriptors. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to send DNS queries to unintended recipients, resulting in information disclosure or data loss due to the application...

PT-2015-7848 · Gnu +2 · Gnu C Library +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GNU C Library versions prior to 2.22 Description: The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by providing a malformed pattern that triggers an out-of-bounds read in the fnmatc...