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Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glibc  (opens in a new tab)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-356537
  • published28 Sept 2015
  • disclosed28 Sept 2015
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Introduced: 28 Sep 2015

CVE-2015-1781  (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.

Buffer overflow in the gethostbyname_r and other unspecified NSS functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a misaligned buffer.

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