Improper Data Handling Affecting glibc-common package, versions <0:2.26-62.amzn2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-GLIBCCOMMON-3109944
- published 9 Nov 2022
- disclosed 20 Mar 2017
Introduced: 20 Mar 2017
CVE-2015-8985 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
glibc-common
to version 0:2.26-62.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2022-1869
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-common
package and not the glibc-common
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2
relevant fixed versions and status.
The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.