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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2009-5155: glibc security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2009-5155: glibc security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/25/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/03/2019
Modified
04/03/2019

Description

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.28, parse_reg_exp in posix/regcomp.c misparses alternatives, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) or trigger an incorrect result by attempting a regular-expression match.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-glibc
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-glibc-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-glibc-static
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-nscd

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