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SUSE: CVE-2015-8779: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2015-8779: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/16/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-glibc
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel-static
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-extra
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-html
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-i18ndata
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-info
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-lang
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-base
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-base-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-x86
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-profile
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-profile-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-profile-x86
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-x86
  • suse-upgrade-nscd
  • suse-upgrade-sles11sp4-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-sles12-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-sles12sp1-docker-image

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:0470
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0470-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0471
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0471-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0472
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0473
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0473-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0748-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0778-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0786-1
  • RHSA-2017:0680
  • RHSA-2017:1916
  • DLA-411-1
  • DSA-3480
  • DSA-3481
  • 82244
  • USN-2985-1
  • USN-2985-2
  • GLSA-201602-02
  • GLSA-201702-11
  • CVE-2015-8779
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