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Mageia 9 MGASA-2025-0026 critical: glibc buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2025
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Mageia has released revised glibc packages addressing buffer overflow vulnerabilities within the assert() function as of January 26, 2025.
When the assert() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.13 to 2.40 fails, it does not allocate enough space for the assertion failure message string and size information, which ...

Summary

When the assert() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.13 to 2.40 fails, it does not allocate enough space for the assertion failure message string and size information, which may lead to a buffer overflow if the message string size aligns to page size. (CVE-2025-0395)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33953

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/22/4

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-0395

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow security fix glibc Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/glibc-2.36-55.mga9

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Publication date: 26 Jan 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0026.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-0395

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Topics Covered

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