Use After Free Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.26)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319019
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed7 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12133  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.26 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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.

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