CVE-2016-3075

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2016-06-01

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Glibc (Gnu)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2573.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85732
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19879
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4