CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-5229

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-04-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-17

Description

The calloc function in the glibc package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.2 does not properly initialize memory areas, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang or crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 6.7 • redhat enterprise linux 7.2 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux hpc node 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux hpc node eus 7.2 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.2 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.2 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References