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.

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;h=317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3