Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glibc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2204-GLIBC-2801292
  • published4 Mar 2022
  • disclosed19 Feb 2022

Introduced: 19 Feb 2022

CVE-2016-20013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:22.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

sha256crypt and sha512crypt through 0.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) because the algorithm's runtime is proportional to the square of the length of the password.