SB2016101025 - Fedora 24 update for glibc-arm-linux-gnu

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SB2016101025 - Fedora 24 update for glibc-arm-linux-gnu

Published: October 10, 2016 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2016101025
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6323)

CWE-ID: CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The makecontext function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.25 creates execution contexts incompatible with the unwinder on ARM EABI (32-bit) platforms, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang), as demonstrated by applications compiled using gccgo, related to backtrace generation.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References