CVE-2016-6323

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.

References

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=9e2ff6c9cc54c0b4402b8d49e4abe7000fde7617

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20435

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-19

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WO7IMEYWZ2WTXGGMZBWWSDCUMFN63XOB/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LVWSAZVBTLALXF4SCBPDV3FY6J22DXLZ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KTXSOVCRDGBIB4WCIDAGYYUBESXZ4IGK/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92532

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/12

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00009.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3