Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201587780000000
Revision Date:2016-04-19Version:1
Title:CVE-2015-8778 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access. Szabolcs Nagy discovered that the hcreate functions in the GNU C Library did not properly check its size argument, leading to an integer overflow. An attacker could use to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2015-8778
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND glibc package in xenial, is related to the CVE in some way and has been fixed (note: '2.23-0ubuntu1').
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