5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.032 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.0%
Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in
sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 and
earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a
(1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of AF_INET6
address results. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete
fix for CVE-2013-1914.
Author | Note |
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sbeattie | this fix was also incomplete, leading to CVE-2016-3706 |