Published: 17/02/2017 Updated: 12/02/2023

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: 445

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

Memory leak in the __res_vinit function in the IPv6 name server management code in libresolv in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) prior to 2.24 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures.

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Debian Bug report logs - #833302 glibc: CVE-2016-5417: per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6 nameservers Package: libc6; Maintainer for libc6 is GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@listsdebianorg>; Source for libc6 is src:glibc (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Dat ...

USN-3239-1 introduced a regression in the GNU C Library ...

Several security issues were fixed in the GNU C Library ...

USN-3239-1 introduced a regression in the GNU C Library ...

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 224 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures ...

CWE-399 https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.html https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19257 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92257 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/5 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2212c1420c92a33b0e0bd9a34938c9814a56c0f7 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833302 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3239-3/

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