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Google: sys-libs/glibc: security update to 19216.220.24

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 453760

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Calling wordexp with WRDE_REUSE in conjunction with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to
 version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the we_wordv member, which on
 subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process. (CVE-2025-15281)

Solution

Update the sys-libs/glibc library and its related packages to version 19216.220.24 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-125.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 453760

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: HIGH

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-15281

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-15281