Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GNU C Library regression (USN-2985-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2985-2 advisory. 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...

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...