FKIE_CVE-2016-3075

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-01 20:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:44
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the nss_dns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a long name.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2573.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85732
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19879
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2573.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85732
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19879
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
opensuse opensuse 13.2
gnu glibc *
fedoraproject fedora 23
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 15.10
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