Out-of-bounds Write Affecting glibc package, versions <2.18-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
97.44% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-GLIBC-356812
  • published28 Jan 2015
  • disclosed28 Jan 2015

Introduced: 28 Jan 2015

CVE-2015-0235  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 glibc to version 2.18-1 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the __nss_hostname_digits_dots function in glibc 2.2, and other 2.x versions before 2.18, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) gethostbyname or (2) gethostbyname2 function, aka "GHOST."

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