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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2985-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

CVE-2014-9761

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.23 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the 1 nan, 2 nanf, or 3 nanl function...