vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for glibc (ALAS-2016-660) (CVE-2015-5229)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 11, 2016
Added
Mar 11, 2016
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

The calloc function in the glibc package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.2 does not properly initialize memory areas, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang or crash) via unspecified vectors.

Solutions

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