Security Advisory

CVE-2015-0235

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-01-28 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 04:03:10
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the __nss_hostname_digits_dots function in glibc 2.2, and other 2.x versions before 2.18, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) gethostbyname or (2) gethostbyname2 function, aka "GHOST."