Security Advisory

CVE-2016-3706

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-06-10 15:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 00:03:34

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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