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Ubuntu: USN-5379-1 (CVE-2021-31873): klibc vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5379-1 (CVE-2021-31873): klibc vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/30/2021
Created
04/21/2022
Added
04/19/2022
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in klibc before 2.0.9. Additions in the malloc() function may result in an integer overflow and a subsequent heap buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-klibc-utils
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libklibc

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