CVE-2014-9761

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions glibc versions prior to 2.23

Description The issue is related to multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the GNU C Library. This can be exploited by context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, such as an application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The overflows occur when a long argument is passed to certain functions, including the nan, nanf, or nanl functions.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.23, update to version 2.23 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the input to the nan, nanf, and nanl functions to prevent long arguments from being passed.