USN-3197-1

Kuang-che Wu discovered that multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities existed in libgc. An attacker could use these to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libgc

Package

Name: libgc
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libgc@1:7.2d-5ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:7.2d-5ubuntu2.1

Affected versions

1:7.*

1:7.2d-5ubuntu1

1:7.2d-5ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libgc-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:7.2d-5ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgc1c2",
            "binary_version": "1:7.2d-5ubuntu2.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libgc

Package

Name: libgc
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libgc@1:7.4.2-7.3ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:7.4.2-7.3ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

1:7.*

1:7.2d-6.4

1:7.4.2-7

1:7.4.2-7.1

1:7.4.2-7.2

1:7.4.2-7.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libgc-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:7.4.2-7.3ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgc1c2",
            "binary_version": "1:7.4.2-7.3ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}