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Debian: CVE-2021-31873: klibc -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 30, 2021
Added
Jun 30, 2021
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in klibc before 2.0.9. Additions in the malloc() function may result in an integer overflow and a subsequent heap buffer overflow.

Solution

debian-upgrade-klibc
Title
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