CVE-2016-3706 (GCVE-0-2016-3706)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:03
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
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| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88440 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20010 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-12-01 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102073 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
Date Public
2016-04-29 00:00
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Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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