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LIN8-2668 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2015-8779

Created: Feb 1, 2016 Updated: Dec 3, 2018

Resolved Date: Feb 3, 2016

Found In Version: 8.0.0.1

Fix Version: 8.0.0.2

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8

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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CVEs

CVE-2015-8779