5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.01 Low
EPSS
Percentile
83.6%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:2573
The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly.
Security Fix(es):
This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer (Red Hat).
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2016-November/029473.html
Affected packages:
glibc
glibc-common
glibc-devel
glibc-headers
glibc-static
glibc-utils
nscd
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2573
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 7 | i686 | glibc | < 2.17-157.el7 | glibc-2.17-157.el7.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | glibc | < 2.17-157.el7 | glibc-2.17-157.el7.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | glibc-common | < 2.17-157.el7 | glibc-common-2.17-157.el7.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | i686 | glibc-devel | < 2.17-157.el7 | glibc-devel-2.17-157.el7.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | glibc-devel | < 2.17-157.el7 | glibc-devel-2.17-157.el7.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | glibc-headers | < 2.17-157.el7 | glibc-headers-2.17-157.el7.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | i686 | glibc-static | < 2.17-157.el7 | glibc-static-2.17-157.el7.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | glibc-static | < 2.17-157.el7 | glibc-static-2.17-157.el7.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | glibc-utils | < 2.17-157.el7 | glibc-utils-2.17-157.el7.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | nscd | < 2.17-157.el7 | nscd-2.17-157.el7.x86_64.rpm |
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.01 Low
EPSS
Percentile
83.6%