Description (CNA)
Stack-based buffer overflow in string/strcoll_l.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string that triggers a malloc failure and use of the alloca function.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858238
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/16
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858238
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/16
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283