INFSA-2025:3828: glibc security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:3828

Type: security

Release date: 2025-04-29 14:22:08 UTC

Information about package

The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2025-0395

    When the assert() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.13 to 2.40 fails, it does not allocate enough space for the assertion failure message string and size information, which may lead to a buffer overflow if the message string size aligns to page size.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
NIST — CVE-2025-0395
 no information 5.5 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages