Improper Resource Shutdown or Release Affecting glibc package, versions <2.28-6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-531337
  • published19 Jan 2019
  • disclosed18 Jan 2019

Introduced: 18 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6488  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-404  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.28-6 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 string component in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, when running on the x32 architecture, incorrectly attempts to use a 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes, which can lead to a segmentation fault or possibly unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by a crash in __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms in sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S during a memcpy.