Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsshostnamedigitsdots function in glibc 2.2, and other 2.x versions before 2.18, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) gethostbyname or (2) gethostbyname2 function, aka "GHOST."
An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when these functions are called with a very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message, resulting in undefined behavior. This issue affects glibc 2.37 and newer.
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/showbug.cgi?id=17905
CVE assignment:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/153
An integer overflow vulnerability was found in hcreate and hcreater which can result in an out-of-bound memory access. This could lead to application crashes or, potentially, arbitrary code execution.
Upstream bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=18240
CVE assignment:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/153
The mqnotify function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) versions 2.32 and 2.33 has a use-after-free. It may use the notification thread attributes object (passed through its struct sigevent parameter) after it has been freed by the caller, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly unspecified other impact.
Last updated 24 July 2024
Last updated 24 July 2024
Last updated 24 July 2024
DISPUTED A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled.
sprintf in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.37 has a buffer overflow (out-of-bounds write) in some situations with a correct buffer size. This is unrelated to CWE-676. It may write beyond the bounds of the destination buffer when attempting to write a padded, thousands-separated string representation of a number, if the buffer is allocated the exact size required to represent that number as a string. For example, 1,234,567 (with padding to 13) overflows by two bytes.
It was found that out-of-range time values passed to the strftime function may cause it to crash, leading to a denial of service, or potentially disclosure information.
Upstream bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=18985
CVE assignment:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/153
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when the openlog function was not called, or called with the ident argument set to NULL, and the program name (the basename of argv[0]) is bigger than 1024 bytes, resulting in an application crash or local privilege escalation. This issue affects glibc 2.36 and newer.
ptchown in the glibc package before 2.19-18+deb8u4 on Debian jessie; the elibc package before 2.15-0ubuntu10.14 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and before 2.19-0ubuntu6.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; and the glibc package before 2.21-0ubuntu4.2 on Ubuntu 15.10 and before 2.23-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10 lacks a namespace check associated with file-descriptor passing, which allows local users to capture keystrokes and spoof data, and possibly gain privileges, via pts read and write operations, related to debian/sysdeps/linux.mk. NOTE: this is not considered a vulnerability in the upstream GNU C Library because the upstream documentation has a clear security recommendation against the --enable-ptchown option.
An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when these functions are called with a message bigger than INTMAX bytes, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message, resulting in an application crash. This issue affects glibc 2.37 and newer.
A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from nssdns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control of EIP in the DNS client.
The buffer overflow occurs in the functions senddg (send datagram) and sendvc (send TCP) for the NSS module libnssdns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AFUNSPEC family, or in some cases AFINET6 family. The use of AFUNSPEC (or AFINET6 in some cases) triggers the low-level resolver code to send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by resnquery.
Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.
Integer overflow in the IOwstroverflow function in libio/wstrops.c ...
A flaw was found in the way memory was being allocated on the stack for user space binaries. If heap and stack memory regions were adjacent to each other, an attacker could use this flaw to jump over the heap/stack gap, cause controlled memory corruption on process stack or heap, and thus increase their privileges on the system.
This is a tracking bug for the glibc part of the mitigation.
A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with elevated privileges.
It was reported [1] that getnetbyname function in glibc 2.21 in earlier will enter an infinite loop if the DNS backend is activated in the system Name Service Switch configuration, and the DNS resolver receives a positive answer while processing the network name.
Upstream commit that fixes this issue: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=11e3417af6e354f1942c68a271ae51e892b2814d
[1]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=17630
DISPUTED The xdrbytes and xdrstring functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.25 mishandle failures of buffer deserialization, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (virtual memory allocation, or memory consumption if an overcommit setting is not used) via a crafted UDP packet to port 111, a related issue to CVE-2017-8779. NOTE: [Information provided from upstream and references]
The string component in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, when running on the x32 architecture, incorrectly attempts to use a 64-bit register for sizet in assembly codes, which can lead to a segmentation fault or possibly unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by a crash in memmoveavxunalignederms in sysdeps/x8664/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S during a memcpy.
An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.36. When the syslog function is passed a crafted input string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a portion of the contents of the heap.
Off-by-one error in the gconvtranslitfind function in gconvtrans.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the CHARSET environment variable and gconv transliteration modules.
nis/nssnis/nis-pwd.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.7 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) 2.10.2 adds information from the passwd.adjunct.byname map to entries in the passwd map, which allows remote attackers to obtain the encrypted passwords of NIS accounts by calling the getpwnam function.
GNU C Library is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by not handling non-normal x86 long double numbers gracefully for printf family functions. By sending a specially crafted value to the functions, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
GNU glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer over-read in iconv feature. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a SIGSEGV.
Last updated 24 July 2024
Last updated 24 July 2024
Stack-based buffer overflow in the nssdns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a long name.