CVE-2015-5229

Public on 2016-03-10
Modified on 2016-03-10
Description
It was discovered that the calloc implementation in glibc could return memory areas which contain non-zero bytes. This could result in unexpected application behavior such as hangs or crashes.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2016-03-10 ALAS-2016-660 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H