MGASA-2015-0072

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    MGASA-2015-0072

    Published: 17 Feb 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the allocated buffer (CVE-2015-1472). The incorrect use of "__libc_use_alloca (newsize)" caused a different (and weaker) policy to be enforced which could allow a denial of service attack (CVE-2015-1473).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0072.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15259, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/04/1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: glibc

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/glibc?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.18-9.9.mga4

    Affected versions

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