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GHSA-XRCF-WXWQ-5JMQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 02:08 – Updated: 2025-04-12 13:05

Details

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2016-6323 (GCVE-0-2016-6323)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-10-07 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:29

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

10 references

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/0…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-1…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Date Public

2016-08-04 00:00

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