CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5417
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/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-399
Description
Memory leak in the __res_vinit function in the IPv6 name server management code in libresolv in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (<= 2.23)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92257 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19257 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2212c1420c92a33b0e0bd9a34938c9814a56c0f7 sourceware.org
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.html Release Notes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92257 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19257 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2212c1420c92a33b0e0bd9a34938c9814a56c0f7 sourceware.org
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.html Release Notes