Siemens Industrial Products Affected by Critical glibc Flaw

  • 13 April 2016
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By Eduard Kovacs on April 13, 2016
 
Siemens has informed customers that several of the company’s industrial solutions are plagued by a severe vulnerability in glibc, a library used in many software and hardware products.
 
The vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow tracked as CVE-2015-7547. The issue was first reported in July 2015 by Robert Holiday of Ciena, and its impact was assessed by Florian Weimer and Carlos O’Donell of Red Hat. Google independently discovered the issue and contributed to the development of a patch and proof-of-concept (PoC) code.
 
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