Use After Free Affecting glibc package, versions <2.24-15


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.64% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-531655
  • published 7 Sep 2017
  • disclosed 7 Sep 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.24-15 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.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the clntudp_call function in sunrpc/clnt_udp.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.26 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to error path.