SB2022113036 - SUSE update for glibc
Published: November 30, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022113036
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Data Handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8985)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.