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CVE-2015-1781 (GCVE-0-2015-1781)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-28 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:54
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Summary
Buffer overflow in the gethostbyname_r and other unspecified NSS functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a misaligned buffer.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commi… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032178 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74255 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2015-04-21 00:00
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