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Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.21-8

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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    EPSS
    3.47% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-527242
  • published 19 Apr 2016
  • disclosed 19 Apr 2016
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Introduced: 19 Apr 2016

CVE-2015-8778 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.21-8 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.

Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.

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