PT-2016-3674

CVE-2015-5229

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Published

2016-02-16

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Updated

2016-11-28

Description by

CVSS 2.0
5.0
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions glibc versions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.2
Description The issue is related to the calloc function in the glibc package, which does not properly initialize memory areas. This could allow attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a hang or crash, via unspecified vectors.
Recommendations For glibc in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.2, update the glibc package to a version that properly initializes memory areas to prevent potential denial of service attacks.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
CESA-2016_0176
RHSA-2016:0176
RHSA-2016_0176
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