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Improper Access Control Affecting glibc package, versions <2.24-1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.49% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-522817
  • published 7 Oct 2016
  • disclosed 7 Oct 2016
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Introduced: 7 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-6323 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.24-1 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.

The makecontext function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.25 creates execution contexts incompatible with the unwinder on ARM EABI (32-bit) platforms, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang), as demonstrated by applications compiled using gccgo, related to backtrace generation.

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