Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting glibc package, versions <2.24-11+deb9u4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.09% (36th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-GLIBC-356596
- published 1 Feb 2018
- disclosed 1 Feb 2018
Introduced: 1 Feb 2018
CVE-2017-1000408 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
glibc
to version 2.24-11+deb9u4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc
package and not the glibc
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
A memory leak in glibc 2.1.1 (released on May 24, 1999) can be reached and amplified through the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.