February 14, 2025 - 1.20.3 came before the broken glibc, so it just couldn't. There's an an issue opened on GitHub, so devs are aware of this and probably will fix it in the next update/patch.

Recently, Google experts have revealed a security fault because of which many devices and apps are at risk – Linux servers are also a part of it. It is a bug known as glibc bug which can distress hundreds of devices, applications and softwares which are internet connected.

January 27, 2026 - The failure occurs when Slurm controller cannot reliably resolve hostnames, usually due to one of the following: DNS misconfiguration inside Azure VMs (systemd‑resolved / incorrect resolv.conf) CycleCloud cluster hostname not resolvable via ...

Reported by: Luca Monducci <luca.mo@tiscali.it>; Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 13:55:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: l10n, patch; Fixed in version glibc/2.42-2; Done: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>; Filed 48 days ago; Modified 38 days ago;

This issue has been rated as having Critical impact by Red Hat Product Security. In a default libresolv configuration, the UDP-based vector is mitigated by using a trusted, protocol-compliant DNS resolver on a trusted network. A compliant resolver will not produce the kind of oversized responses which are necessary to exploit this vulnerability because by default, the glibc resolver does not enable EDNS0 and does not request large responses.

January 17, 2026 - CVE-2026-0915 was published on ... introduced in 1996. The oss-security bulletin sums up the issue as the getnetbyaddr and getnetbyaddr_r functions leaking the stack contents to the DNS resovler....

A glibc compatibility layer package for Alpine Linux - Issues · sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc

August 20, 2025 - Our engineers were able to obtain a stack trace of the crash, but unfortunately, it did not provide much information about what was going on. We decided to revert the introduction of the hardened flags when compiling glibc until we could fully understand the issue.

April 28, 2025 - Problems occur when you run a program on a system with a GLIBC version that's older than the one used when compiling (because then your program relies on features that don't exist on the host system).

July 21, 2023 - This can take several minutes. Press CTRL-C to abort. failed UnsatisfiableError: The following specifications were found to be incompatible with your system: - feature:/linux-64::__glibc==2.31=0 - oneclient -> nss -> __glibc[version='>=2.17|>=2.17,<3.0.a0'] Your installed version is: 2.31

For more mailing lists please see ... in glibc. Announcements about the GNU C Library and most other GNU software are made on the info-gnu mailing list (archives). Security reports that should not be made immediately public can be sent directly to the maintainers. If there is no response to an urgent issue, you can escalate ...

April 23, 2024 - The glibc Bug Unveiled A recent revelation by security researcher Charles Fol has brought to light a critical vulnerability within glibc, a cornerstone of the Linux operating system. This bug, which has existed unnoticed for over two decades, now poses a significant threat to PHP web applications.

April 16, 2025 - "The most vulnerable devices to this glibc vulnerability are IoT devices due to their extensive use of the Linux kernel within custom operating systems," explained John Gallagher, vice president of Viakoo Labs at ... "Not only will different IoT device manufacturers have different schedules for producing patches, but there will be a lengthy process to ensure that all devices are remediated." The Qualys TRU disclosed the issue to Linux package maintainers on September 4 and sent a patch on September 19th.

Getting a double free or corruption error when running a third-party application under Red Hat Enterprise Linux Error is similar to the ones shown below: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption: 0x0937d008 *** *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x000000000b899110 *** *** glibc detected *** */path/to/program*: free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0000000007816e70 ***

January 15, 2025 - To resolve this, you can temporarily change the locale to English while building glibc. This will help ensure that the required .texi files are found and other locale-related issues are avoided.

August 16, 2021 - When a fix was made in early June for a relatively minor problem, CVE-2021-33574, which could result in application crashes, this was a good thing. Unfortunately, it turned out the fix introduced a new and nastier problem, CVE-2021-38604.

April 3, 2025 - glibc actually goes to a fair bit of effort to be compatible with old binaries unlike most of the rest of the Linux userspace. The binaries I built for my side project back in 2015 (BlastEm 0.3.0) still work fine on modern Linux and they dynamically link against glibc.

glibc detected *** /usr/local/OpenEdge/10.2B/bin/_progres: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00854170 *** Followed by a trace with pointer info. ... Thank you Gary, but I already received the hint for disc space issues.