glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in glibc, the worst of which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. glibc 2018-04-04 2018-04-04 632556 634920 635118 641644 644278 646490 646492 local, remote 2.25-r11 2.25-r11

glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in glibc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, cause a Denial of Service condition, or have other unspecified impacts.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All glibc users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r11"

CVE-2017-14062 CVE-2017-15670 CVE-2017-15671 CVE-2017-15804 CVE-2017-16997 CVE-2018-1000001 CVE-2018-6485 CVE-2018-6551 chrisadr b-man