Out-of-bounds Write Affecting glibc package, versions <0:2.17-260.175.amzn1
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- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 1 Feb 2018
How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03
glibc
to version 0:2.17-260.175.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2018-1109
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc
package and not the glibc
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2018.03
relevant fixed versions and status.
An integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.26 and earlier could cause these functions to return a pointer to a heap area that is too small, potentially leading to heap corruption.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102912
- http://bugs.debian.org/878159
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22343
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6485
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3092
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4218-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/