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HistoryFeb 16, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2016-5417

2017-02-1600:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
8

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

0.008 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.0%

Memory leak in the __res_vinit function in the IPv6 name server management
code in libresolv in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.24 allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by
leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures.

Notes

Author Note
sbeattie introduced in 2.22 commit 2212c1420c92a33b0e0bd9a34938c9814a56c0f7
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu16.04noarchglibc<ย 2.23-0ubuntu6UNKNOWN

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

0.008 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.0%