UBUNTU 16.04 ELS: glibc package with the fix for several CVEs released - TuxCare

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A new updated glibc package with the fix for several CVEs within Ubuntu 16.04 ELS is now available for download from our production repository.

CHANGELOG

glibc-2.23-0-ubuntu-11.4

  • Fix avoid use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2021-33574)
  • Fix avoid out-of-bounds read via signed integer overflow in array index (CVE-2021-35942)
  • Fix NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2021-38604)

UPDATE COMMAND

apt-get update
apt-get --only-upgrade install glibc6*

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