Resolution for glibc vulnerabilities CVE-2014-9761, CVE-2015-8776, CVE-2015-8777, CVE-2015-8778, CVE-2015-8779

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • glibc: Unbounded stack allocation in nan* functions (CVE-2014-9761)
  • glibc: Segmentation fault caused by passing out-of-range data to strftime() (CVE-2015-8776)
  • glibc: LD_POINTER_GUARD in the environment is not sanitized (CVE-2015-8777)
  • glibc: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r (CVE-2015-8778)
  • glibc: Unbounded stack allocation in catopen function (CVE-2015-8779)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • glibc

Subscriber exclusive content

A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase, tools, and much more.

Current Customers and Partners

Log in for full access

Log In

New to Red Hat?

Learn more about Red Hat subscriptions

Using a Red Hat product through a public cloud?

How to access this content