Executive Summary



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Summary
Title glibc security update
Informations
Name DSA-3481 First vendor Publication 2016-02-16
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2016-02-16
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in the GNU C Library, glibc.

The first vulnerability listed below is considered to have critical impact.

CVE-2015-7547

The Google Security Team and Red Hat discovered that the glibc host name resolver function, getaddrinfo, when processing AF_UNSPEC queries (for dual A/AAAA lookups), could mismanage its internal buffers, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow and arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability affects most applications which perform host name resolution using getaddrinfo, including system services.

CVE-2015-8776

Adam Nielsen discovered that if an invalid separated time value is passed to strftime, the strftime function could crash or leak information. Applications normally pass only valid time information to strftime; no affected applications are known.

CVE-2015-8778

Szabolcs Nagy reported that the rarely-used hcreate and hcreate_r functions did not check the size argument properly, leading to a crash (denial of service) for certain arguments. No impacted applications are known at this time.

CVE-2015-8779

The catopen function contains several unbound stack allocations (stack overflows), causing it the crash the process (denial of service). No applications where this issue has a security impact are currently known.

While it is only necessary to ensure that all processes are not using the old glibc anymore, it is recommended to reboot the machines after applying the security upgrade.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.19-18+deb8u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed in version 2.21-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your glibc packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3481

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
75 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
25 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 119
Application 3
Application 1
Application 2
Application 2
Application 6
Os 3
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 6
Os 9
Os 5
Os 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-03-14 glibc getaddrinfo AAAA record stack buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37731-community - Revision : 5 - Type : PROTOCOL-DNS
2016-03-22 glibc getaddrinfo AAAA record stack buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37731 - Revision : 5 - Type : PROTOCOL-DNS
2016-03-14 glibc getaddrinfo A record stack buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37730-community - Revision : 5 - Type : PROTOCOL-DNS
2016-03-22 glibc getaddrinfo A record stack buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37730 - Revision : 5 - Type : PROTOCOL-DNS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-02-28 Name : The version of Arista Networks EOS running on the remote device is affected b...
File : arista_eos_sa0017.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-11 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1200.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-11 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1199.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-01 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-877.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-25 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-1916.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-22 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170801_glibc_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-09 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-1916.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-03 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-1916.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-06 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170321_glibc_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0051.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0680.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-27 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0680.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0680.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201702-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-14 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : cisco-CSCuy36553-nxos.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-27 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2985-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-26 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2985-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-68abc0be35.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-08 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : f5_bigip_SOL51079478.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-05 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : f5_bigip_SOL23946311.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-0f9e9a34ce.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-0480defc94.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-25 Name : The remote VMware ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.
File : vmware_VMSA-2016-0002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-24 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2016-054-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-23 Name : The remote VMware ESXi host is affected by a remote code execution vulnerabil...
File : vmware_VMSA-2016-0002_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-23 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-0277.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-22 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-234.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-19 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-233.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201602-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-18 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_2dd7e97ed5e811e5bcbdbc5ff45d0f28.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-18 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-224.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-18 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-0470-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-18 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-0471-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-18 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-0472-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-0175.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2016-653.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-0176.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-416.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3480.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3481.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : f5_bigip_SOL47098834.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0175.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0176.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-0175.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-0176.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-0225.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20160216_glibc_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20160216_glibc_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2900-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-04-22 00:27:28
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-20 05:28:30
  • Multiple Updates
2016-02-29 21:29:47
  • Multiple Updates
2016-02-25 09:28:54
  • Multiple Updates
2016-02-19 21:28:42
  • Multiple Updates
2016-02-19 05:30:09
  • Multiple Updates
2016-02-18 13:27:47
  • Multiple Updates
2016-02-16 17:28:33
  • Multiple Updates
2016-02-16 17:23:58
  • First insertion