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CVE-2016-3075

Published: 01/06/2016 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 446
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the nss_dns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) prior to 2.24 allows context-dependent malicious users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a long name.

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Vendor Advisories

Red Hat: Low: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Synopsis Low: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Low Topic An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base sc ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities
Several security issues were fixed in the GNU C Library ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: eglibc, glibc regression
USN-2985-1 introduced a regression in the GNU C Library ...
Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2017-792
A stack overflow vulnerability was found in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r On systems with nsswitch configured to include "networks: dns" with a privileged or network-facing service that would attempt to resolve user-provided network names, an attacker could provide an excessively long network name, resulting in stack corruption and code execution ...
Red Hat: CVE-2016-3075
A stack overflow vulnerability was found in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r On systems with nsswitch configured to include "networks: dns" with a privileged or network-facing service that would attempt to resolve user-provided network names, an attacker could provide an excessively long network name, resulting in stack corruption and code execution ...

References

CWE-119http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19879http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85732http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2573.htmlhttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2573https://nvd.nist.govhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/2985-1/
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