CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9761

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-04-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the (1) nan, (2) nanf, or (3) nanl function.

Affected configurations

• suse linux enterprise debuginfo 11.0 • opensuse opensuse 13.2 • suse linux enterprise desktop 11.0 • suse linux enterprise desktop 12 • suse linux enterprise server 11.0 • suse linux enterprise server 12 • suse linux enterprise software development kit 11.0 • suse linux enterprise software development kit 12 • suse suse linux enterprise server 12 • fedoraproject fedora 23 • gnu glibc (<= 2.22) • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References