K19916307 : glibc vulnerability CVE-2015-1473

Security Advisory Description

The ADDW macro in stdio-common/vfscanf.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 does not properly consider data-type size during a risk-management decision for use of the alloca function, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or overwrite memory locations beyond the stack boundary via a long line containing wide characters that are improperly handled in a wscanf call. (CVE-2015-1473)

Impact

There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.