vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-8779: GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 19, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-glibc
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