CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-7424
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-17
Description
The getaddrinfo function in glibc before 2.15, when compiled with libidn and the AI_IDN flag is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid free) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by an internationalized domain name to ping6.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (<= 2.14.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1627.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/21 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72710 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186614 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981942 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18011 sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2e96f1c7 sourceware.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1627.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/21 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72710 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186614 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981942 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18011 sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2e96f1c7 sourceware.org