Glibc Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 29 Nov 2018 10:06 Release Date: 29 Nov 2018 5258 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Operating Systems - Linux

A vulnerability has been identified in Glibc, a remote user can exploit this vulnerability to trigger denial of service condition on the targeted system.

Impact

Denial of Service

System / Technologies affected

Version prior to 2.29

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

The vendor has issued a fix (2.29).

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23927

Vulnerability Identifier

CVE-2018-19591

Source

SecurityTracker