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ghsa-qqpx-rhfx-8mgf

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 02:58

Modified

2022-05-17 02:58

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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.

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CVE-2016-5417 (GCVE-0-2016-5417)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-02-16 18:00

Modified

2024-08-06 01:00

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

References

URL

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	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19257	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92257	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2212c1420c92a33b0e0bd9a34938c9814a56c0f7	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/5	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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