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LIN6-10821 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2015-8779

Created: Feb 1, 2016    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Mar 9, 2016
Previous ID: LIN8-2670
Found In Version: 6.0.0.27
Fix Version: 6.0.0.29
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Toolchain

Description

A stack overflow vulnerability in the catopen function was found, causing applications which pass long strings to the catopen function to crash or, potentially execute arbitrary code.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17905

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/153

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