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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-10739

🗓️ 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus🔗 www.tenable.com👁 2 Views

Unpatched glibc getaddrinfo CVE-2016-10739 allows IPv4 with spaces to be parsed as valid; up to 2.28

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  - In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse
    a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could lead
    applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid string, without the possibility of embedded
    HTTP headers or other potentially dangerous substrings. (CVE-2016-10739)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Ubuntu Linux-14.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
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        "release": "14.04",
        "pkgs": [
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          {"reference": "libc0.1-i386"},
          {"reference": "libc0.1-i686"},
          {"reference": "libc0.1-pic"},
          {"reference": "libc0.1-prof"},
          {"reference": "libc0.1-udeb"},
          {"reference": "libc0.3"},
          {"reference": "libc0.3-dbg"},
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          {"reference": "libc0.3-i686"},
          {"reference": "libc0.3-pic"},
          {"reference": "libc0.3-prof"},
          {"reference": "libc0.3-udeb"},
          {"reference": "libc0.3-xen"},
          {"reference": "libc6"},
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          {"reference": "libc6.1-dev"},
          {"reference": "libc6.1-pic"},
          {"reference": "libc6.1-prof"},
          {"reference": "libc6.1-udeb"},
          {"reference": "libnss-dns-udeb"},
          {"reference": "libnss-files-udeb"},
          {"reference": "locales"},
          {"reference": "locales-all"},
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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Vulners AI Score6.1
CVSS 24.6
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EPSS0.0004
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