vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2015-8779): GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 19, 2016
Added
May 27, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the catopen function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long catalog name.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libc6ubuntu-upgrade-libc6-dev

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