The calloc function in the glibc package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.2 does not properly initialize memory areas, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang or crash) via unspecified vectors.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-5225 The calloc function in the glibc package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 and 7.2 does not properly initialize memory areas, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang or crash) via unspecified vectors.
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:41:07.992Z

Reserved: 2015-07-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-5229

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-04-08T15:59:00.137

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-5229

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-08-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-5229 - Bugzilla

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