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Debian Security Advisory DSA 282-1 (glibc)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to glibc announced via advisory DSA 282-1.

Insight

Insight

eEye Digital Security discovered an integer overflow in the xdrmem_getbytes() function which is also present in GNU libc. This function is part of the XDR (external data representation) encoder/decoder derived from Sun's RPC implementation. Depending upon the application, this vulnerability can cause buffer overflows and could possibly be exploited to execute arbitray code. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.5-11.5. For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.3-25. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.1-16. We recommend that you upgrade your libc6 packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20282-1

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