CVE-2016-1234

high

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.24, when GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long name.

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19779

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/16

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=5171f3079f2cc53e0548fc4967361f4d1ce9d7ea

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://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84204

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/[email protected]%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/0

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164014/Moxa-Command-Injection-Cross-Site-Scripting-Vulnerable-Software.html

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-06-01

Updated: 2021-09-01

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH