USN-4218-1: GNU C Library vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• eglibc - GNU C Library

Details

Jakub Wilk discovered that GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain memory alignments.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause
a crash.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04

• libc6 - 2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm1

Ubuntu 12.04

• libc6 - 2.15-0ubuntu10.22

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

References

• CVE-2018-6485

Related notices

• USN-4416-1: libc6-dev-armel, glibc, glibc-doc, libc6-x32, libc6-dev-i386, libc-bin, libc6-dev-s390, libc6-pic, locales-all, libc6-amd64, libc6-ppc64, libc6, nscd, libc6-dev, multiarch-support, libc-dev-bin, libc6-udeb, libc6-i386, libc6-dev-amd64, locales, glibc-source, libc6-dev-x32, libc6-dev-ppc64, libc6-armel, libc6-s390