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