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Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glibc  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-GLIBC-356496
  • published18 Feb 2016
  • disclosed18 Feb 2016
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Introduced: 18 Feb 2016

CVE-2015-7547  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the (1) send_dg and (2) send_vc functions in the libresolv library in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response that triggers a call to the getaddrinfo function with the AF_UNSPEC or AF_INET6 address family, related to performing "dual A/AAAA DNS queries" and the libnss_dns.so.2 NSS module.

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