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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-8779: glibc security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-8779: glibc security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/19/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2017
Modified
01/18/2018

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-glibc
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-glibc-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-glibc-static
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-nscd

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