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LIN7-6003 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2015-8778

Created: Apr 25, 2016    Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: May 16, 2016
Found In Version: 7.0.0.14
Fix Version: 7.0.0.16
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Toolchain

Description

Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8778

Workaround

echo 'USE_SDK_GLIBC = "0"' >> local.conf
cd layers/oe-core
patch -Np1 < 0001-glibc-Fix-CVE-2015-8778.patch

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