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CVE-2016-3075

Published: Jun 1, 2016

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

FEDORA-2016-68abc0be35

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

openSUSE-SU-2016:1779

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

openSUSE-SU-2016:1527

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19879

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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