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

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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
04/19/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/01/2017
Modified
10/14/2022

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(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc

References

  • ALAS-2017-877
  • USN-2985-1
  • USN-2985-2
  • CVE-2014-9761
  • DLA-411-1

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