PT-2016-3674 · Red Hat+1 · Glibc+2

Jeff Layton · Published 2016-02-16 · Updated 2016-11-28 · CVE-2015-5229

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions glibc versions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.2

Description The issue is related to the calloc function in the glibc package, which does not properly initialize memory areas. This could allow attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a hang or crash, via unspecified vectors.

Recommendations For glibc in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.2, update the glibc package to a version that properly initializes memory areas to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-17

Related Identifiers

CESA-2016_0176

CVE-2015-5229

RHSA-2016:0176

RHSA-2016_0176

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Glibc

References · 25

• 🔥 https://github.com/fjserna/CVE-2015-7547 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/eSentire/cve-2015-7547-public · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/jgajek/cve-2015-7547 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/cakuzo/CVE-2015-7547 · Exploit
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246713 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5229 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0176.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00434 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7547 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0176.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256285 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5229 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293976 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00283 · Security Note
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10150 · Note