Security Advisory
CVE-2014-9761
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the (1) nan, (2) nanf, or (3) nanl function.
Published Date
April 19, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory