GLSA-201602-02 : GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities
critical Nessus Plugin ID 88822
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Synopsis
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201602-02 (GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities)Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNU C Library:
The Google Security Team and Red Hat discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the send_dg() and send_vc() functions due to a buffer mismanagement when getaddrinfo() is called with AF_UNSPEC (CVE-2015-7547).
The strftime() function access invalid memory when passed out-of-range data, resulting in a crash (CVE-2015-8776).
An integer overflow was found in the __hcreate_r() function (CVE-2015-8778).
Multiple unbounded stack allocations were found in the catopen() function (CVE-2015-8779).
Please review the CVEs referenced below for additional vulnerabilities that had already been fixed in previous versions of sys-libs/glibc, for which we have not issued a GLSA before.
Impact :
A remote attacker could exploit any application which performs host name resolution using getaddrinfo() in order to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. The other vulnerabilities can possibly be exploited to cause a Denial of Service or leak information.
Workaround :
A number of mitigating factors for CVE-2015-7547 have been identified.
Please review the upstream advisory and references below.
Solution
All GNU C Library users should upgrade to the latest version:# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sys-libs/glibc-2.21-r2' It is important to ensure that no running process uses the old glibc anymore. The easiest way to achieve that is by rebooting the machine after updating the sys-libs/glibc package.
Note: Should you run into compilation failures while updating, please see bug 574948.
See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?1358552a
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 88822
File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201602-02.nasl
Version: 2.17
Type: local
Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks
Published: 2/18/2016
Updated: 1/11/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Critical
Score: 9.2
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.8
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:glibc, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2016
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2013-7423, CVE-2014-0475, CVE-2014-5119, CVE-2014-6040, CVE-2014-7817, CVE-2014-8121, CVE-2014-9402, CVE-2015-1472, CVE-2015-1781, CVE-2015-7547, CVE-2015-8776, CVE-2015-8778, CVE-2015-8779