PT-2021-1009 · Glibc · Glibc

Published

2021-02-16

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Updated

2021-02-16

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Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: glibc (affected versions not specified)
Description: The issue concerns the glibc packages, which provide essential C libraries for the Linux system. It involves problems with Transaction ID collisions that cause slow DNS lookups in the getaddrinfo function, and slower memcpy calls for AMD processors on AlmaLinux 8 compared to AlmaLinux 7.
Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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Related Identifiers

ALBA-2021:0556

Affected Products

Glibc