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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-8982: glibc security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-8982: glibc security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/15/2017
Created
09/26/2019
Added
09/25/2019
Modified
09/25/2019

Description

Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-static
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-nscd

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