CVE-2016-6323
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 7, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 26, 2016
Description
The makecontext function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.25 creates execution contexts incompatible with the unwinder on ARM EABI (32-bit) platforms, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang), as demonstrated by applications compiled using gccgo, related to backtrace generation.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- FEDORA-2016-87dde780b8vendor-advisory
- 92532vdb-entry
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039
- FEDORA-2016-5f050a0a6dvendor-advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20435
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=9e2ff6c9cc54c0b4402b8d49e4abe7000fde7617
- GLSA-201706-19vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2016-57cba655d5vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20160818 CVE-2016-6323: Missing unwind information on ARM EABI (32-bit) causes backtrace generation to hangmailing-list
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2443vendor-advisory
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