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Published: 10/12/1996 Updated: 09/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 1000

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris "gethostbyname" library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/6853/info A vulnerability has been discovered in multiple vendor implementations of the 'gethostbyname()' library function, which is used to resolve network addresses The 'gethostbyname()' function fails to implement sufficient bounds checking on data copied into local memory buffers Under some circumst ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-13.shtml https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22251/

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