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Ubuntu: USN-4768-1 (CVE-2015-1817): musl vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4768-1 (CVE-2015-1817): musl vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/18/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the inet_pton function in network/inet_pton.c in musl libc 0.9.15 through 1.0.4, and 1.1.0 through 1.1.7 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-musl

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