CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3706
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving hostent conversion. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4458.
Affected configurations
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• gnu glibc (< 2.23)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102073 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88440 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-12-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20010 Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4ab2ab03d4351914ee53248dc5aef4a8c88ff8b9 sourceware.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102073 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88440 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-12-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20010 Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4ab2ab03d4351914ee53248dc5aef4a8c88ff8b9 sourceware.org