CVE-2016-5417

Publication date

2017-02-16 18:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.