CVE-2016-6559

CVE-2016-6559 concerns the BSD libc function link_ntoa() in linkaddr.c, where the obuf bounds are mishandled. The root cause is improper bounds checking, which could allow memory read/write. Public analyses from FreeBSD indicate it is unlikely that applications expose an exploitable use of link_n...

FreeBSD-SA-16:37.libc

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:37.libc Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: linkntoa3 buffer overflow Category: core Module: libc Announced: 2016-12-06, revised on 2016-12-08...