Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319059
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed18 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2017

CVE-2011-5320  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. scanf and related functions in glibc before 2.15 allow local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large string of 0s.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1