Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2015-8779: Security patch for glibc (ALAS-2017-877)
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
04/19/2016
07/25/2018
09/01/2017
10/14/2022
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the catopen function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long catalog name.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc
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