A memory leak in glibc 2.1.1 (released on May 24, 1999) can be reached and amplified through the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade glibc | Jul 30, 2024 | Feb 1, 2018 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade glibc-infoUpgrade nscdUpgrade glibc-utilsUpgrade glibc-locale-32bitUpgrade glibc-profileUpgrade glibc-profile-32bitUpgrade glibc-langUpgrade glibc-localeUpgrade glibc-devel-32bitUpgrade glibc-32bitUpgrade glibc-extraUpgrade glibc-locale-baseUpgrade glibc-htmlUpgrade glibc-develUpgrade glibcUpgrade glibc-devel-staticUpgrade glibc-locale-base-32bitUpgrade glibc-i18ndata | Jan 13, 2018 | Jan 12, 2018 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade libc6 | Jan 18, 2018 | Jan 12, 2018 |
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