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USN-1991-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

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USN-1991-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/09/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Integer overflow in string/strcoll_l.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libc6

References

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