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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2014-9761) (Multiple Advisories): glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2014-9761) (Multiple Advisories): glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement 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
03/28/2017
Modified
09/16/2019

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the (1) nan, (2) nanf, or (3) nanl function.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-static
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nscd

References

  • ELSA-2017-1916
  • USN-2985-1
  • USN-2985-2
  • CVE-2014-9761
  • DLA-411-1

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