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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-14697: musl x87 float stack imbalance

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-14697: musl x87 float stack imbalance

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/06/2019
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

musl libc through 1.1.23 has an x87 floating-point stack adjustment imbalance, related to the math/i386/ directory. In some cases, use of this library could introduce out-of-bounds writes that are not present in an application's source code.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-musl

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