Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.23-0ubuntu10
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.07% (31st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-GLIBC-356508
- published 1 Feb 2018
- disclosed 1 Feb 2018
Introduced: 1 Feb 2018
CVE-2017-1000409 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04
glibc
to version 2.23-0ubuntu10 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:16.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
A buffer overflow in glibc 2.5 (released on September 29, 2006) and can be triggered through the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-1000409
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000409
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43331/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/385
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43331