CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-1781
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in the gethostbyname_r and other unspecified NSS functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a misaligned buffer.
Affected configurations
• suse linux enterprise debuginfo 11
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• gnu glibc (<= 2.21)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74255 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032178 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0863.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2959eda9272a03386 sourceware.org
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74255 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032178 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0863.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2959eda9272a03386 sourceware.org
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory