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Resource Management Errors Affecting glibc package, versions <2.22-4

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.84% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-525187
  • published 17 Feb 2017
  • disclosed 17 Feb 2017
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Introduced: 17 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-5417 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-399 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.22-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.