DSA-3887-1 glibc -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-1000366  

The Qualys Research Labs discovered various problems in the dynamic linker of the GNU C Library which allow local privilege escalation by clashing the stack. For the full details, please refer to their advisory published at: https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.19-18+deb8u10. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.24-11+deb9u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your glibc packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3887-1 glibc -- security update

Date Reported:
19 Jun 2017
Affected Packages:
glibc
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000366.
More information:

The Qualys Research Labs discovered various problems in the dynamic linker of the GNU C Library which allow local privilege escalation by clashing the stack. For the full details, please refer to their advisory published at: https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.19-18+deb8u10.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.24-11+deb9u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your glibc packages.