CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1914

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2013-04-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-04-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of domain conversion results.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.17) • gnu glibc 2.0.1 • gnu glibc 2.0.6 • gnu glibc 2.2 • gnu glibc 2.2.1 • gnu glibc 2.2.2 • gnu glibc 2.2.3 • gnu glibc 2.2.4 • gnu glibc 2.2.5 • gnu glibc 2.3 • gnu glibc 2.3.1 • gnu glibc 2.3.2 • gnu glibc 2.3.3 • gnu glibc 2.3.4 • gnu glibc 2.3.5 • gnu glibc 2.3.6 • gnu glibc 2.4 • gnu glibc 2.5 • gnu glibc 2.5.1 • gnu glibc 2.6 • gnu glibc 2.6.1 • gnu glibc 2.7 • gnu glibc 2.8 • gnu glibc 2.9 • gnu glibc 2.10.1 • gnu glibc 2.11 • gnu glibc 2.11.1 • gnu glibc 2.11.2 • gnu glibc 2.11.3 • gnu glibc 2.12.1 • gnu glibc 2.12.2 • gnu glibc 2.13 • gnu glibc 2.14 • gnu glibc 2.14.1 • gnu glibc 2.15 • gnu glibc 2.16

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References