vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2014-9761: Security patch for glibc (ALAS-2017-877)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
2016-04-19
Added
2017-09-01
Modified
2022-10-14

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the (1) nan, (2) nanf, or (3) nanl function.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc
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