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cvelistMitreCVELIST:CVE-2013-7423
HistoryFeb 24, 2015 - 3:00 p.m.

CVE-2013-7423

2015-02-2415:00:00
mitre
www.cve.org

8.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

71.8%

The send_dg function in resolv/res_send.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 does not properly reuse file descriptors, which allows remote attackers to send DNS queries to unintended locations via a large number of requests that trigger a call to the getaddrinfo function.