vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-1234): GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 1, 2016
Added
Mar 21, 2017
Modified
Mar 18, 2026

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.24, when GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long name.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libc6
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