RHSA-2014:0150
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2014-02-10 17:29 - Updated: 2026-01-28 22:35Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: gc security update
Notes
Topic
Updated gc packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red
Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in
the References section.
Details
Red Hat Satellite Proxy provides a package-caching mechanism that reduces
the bandwidth requirements for Red Hat Satellite and enables custom package
deployment. Red Hat Satellite Proxy customers are able to cache RPM
packages, such as are provided by Errata Updates from Red Hat, or custom
RPM packages generated by their organization, on an internal,
centrally-located server.
gc is a Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector for C and C++.
It was discovered that gc's implementation of the malloc() and calloc()
routines did not properly perform parameter sanitization when allocating
memory. If an application using gc did not implement application-level
validity checks for the malloc() and calloc() routines, a remote attacker
could provide specially crafted application-specific input, which, when
processed by the application, could lead to an application crash or,
potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user
running the application. (CVE-2012-2673)
Users of Red Hat Network Proxy 5.6 are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. For this
update to take effect, Red Hat Network Proxy must be restarted. Refer to
the Solution section for details.
Terms of Use
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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