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HistorySep 28, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2015-1781

2015-09-2800:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.123 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.3%

Buffer overflow in the gethostbyname_r and other unspecified NSS functions
in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows
context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute
arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a
misaligned buffer.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
sbeattie only happens if gethostbyname_r etc functions are called with a misaligned buffer, which according to upstream in practice does not happen often
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu12.04noarcheglibc< 2.15-0ubuntu10.14UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarcheglibc< 2.19-0ubuntu6.8UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.10noarchglibc< 2.21-0ubuntu4.2UNKNOWN

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.123 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.3%