cve-2016-5417
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-16 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:00
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92257Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19257Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2212c1420c92a33b0e0bd9a34938c9814a56c0f7
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.htmlRelease Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92257Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19257Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2212c1420c92a33b0e0bd9a34938c9814a56c0f7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.htmlRelease Notes
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