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glibc: denial of service

Package(s):glibc CVE #(s):CVE-2015-5229
Created:February 17, 2016 Updated:February 23, 2016
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

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.

Alerts:
Scientific Linux SLSA-2016:0176-1 glibc 2016-02-16
Oracle ELSA-2016-0176 glibc 2016-02-16
CentOS CESA-2016:0176 glibc 2016-02-17
Red Hat RHSA-2016:0176-01 glibc 2016-02-16

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