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.
Author | Note |
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sbeattie | only happens if gethostbyname_r etc functions are called with a misaligned buffer, which according to upstream in practice does not happen often |