Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.3.5-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-GLIBC-343172
  • published10 Apr 2019
  • disclosed10 Apr 2019

Introduced: 10 Apr 2019

CVE-2005-3590  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 glibc to version 2.3.5-3 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The getgrouplist function in the GNU C library (glibc) before version 2.3.5, when invoked with a zero argument, writes to the passed pointer even if the specified array size is zero, leading to a buffer overflow and potentially allowing attackers to corrupt memory.