USN-6762-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities
First published: Thu May 02 2024(Updated: )
It was discovered that GNU C Library incorrectly handled netgroup requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-9984) It was discovered that GNU C Library might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-20109) It was discovered that GNU C Library when processing very long pathname arguments to the realpath function, could encounter an integer overflow on 32-bit architectures, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow and, potentially, arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-11236) It was discovered that the GNU C library getcwd function incorrectly handled buffers. An attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3999) Charles Fol discovered that the GNU C Library iconv feature incorrectly handled certain input sequences. An attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-2961)
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libc6 | <2.27-3ubuntu1.6+esm2 | 2.27-3ubuntu1.6+esm2 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =18.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libc6 | <2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm6 | 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm6 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =16.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libc6 | <2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm3 | 2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm3 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =14.04 |
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Reference Links
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-2961
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3999
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9984
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11236
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-20109
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/2063328
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6737-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6737-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5310-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5310-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4416-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6762-1 (Advisory)
Child vulnerabilities
(Contains the following vulnerabilities)
- collector/usn
- source/Ubuntu
- anchor-related/USN-6737-1
- anchor-related/USN-6737-2
- anchor-related/USN-5310-1
- anchor-related/USN-5310-2
- anchor-related/USN-4416-1
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/references
- agent/weakness
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/title
- agent/severity
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/description
- agent/type
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/event
- agent/tags
- agent/trending
- package-manager/ubuntu
- vendor/ubuntu
- canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/18.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/16.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/14.04