CVE-2016-1234

2016-06-0100:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

60.4%

JSON

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library
(aka glibc) before 2.24, when GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is used, allows
context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long
name.

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
sbeattie	see glibc bug for reproducer requires malicious fs layout

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu12.04noarcheglibc< 2.15-0ubuntu10.16UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarcheglibc< 2.19-0ubuntu6.10UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchglibc< 2.23-0ubuntu6UNKNOWN