Source: glibc X-Debbugs-CC: t...@security.debian.org Severity: important Tags: security
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for glibc. CVE-2025-5745[0]: | The strncmp implementation optimized for the Power10 processor in | the GNU C Library version 2.40 and later writes to vector registers | v20 to v31 without saving contents from the caller (those registers | are defined as non-volatile registers by the powerpc64le ABI), | resulting in overwriting of its contents and potentially altering | control flow of the caller, or leaking the input strings to the | function to other parts of the program. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33060 If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-5745 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5745 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.
