CVE-2016-5417

Memory leak in the resvinit function in the IPv6 name server management code in libresolv in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures...

CVE-2016-5417

CVE-2016-5417 affects GNU C Library (glibc/libc6): memory leak in the __res_vinit function of the IPv6 DNS resolver management code (libresolv) prior to version 2.24 can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service via memory exhaustion. Publicly available connected advisories confirm the iss...