Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.15
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EPSS
0.09% (38th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-522449
- published 18 Oct 2017
- disclosed 18 Oct 2017
Introduced: 18 Oct 2017
CVE-2011-5320 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.15 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
scanf and related functions in glibc before 2.15 allow local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large string of 0s.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-5320
- https://marc.info/?l=gimp-developer&m=129567990905823&w=2
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13138#c4
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=20b38e0
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=3f8cc204fdd0
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/12/14
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196745
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=20b38e0
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3f8cc204fdd0
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