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USN-5699-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

25 October 2022

Several security issues were fixed in GNU C Library.

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Jan Engelhardt, Tavis Ormandy, and others discovered that the GNU C Library
iconv feature incorrectly handled certain input sequences. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to hang or crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-3326)

It was discovered that the GNU C Library nscd daemon incorrectly handled
certain netgroup lookups. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2021-35942)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

Related notices

  • USN-5310-1: libc6-pic, libc6-x32, glibc, nscd, locales, libc6-dev-x32, libc6-s390, libc6-dev-armel, libc6-dev-i386, locales-all, multiarch-support, libc-bin, glibc-source, glibc-doc, libc-dev-bin, libc6-lse, libc6-prof, libc6-dev, libc6-armel, libc6-dev-amd64, libc6-amd64, libc6, libc-devtools, libc6-dev-s390, libc6-i386