Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.78% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319070
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed12 Dec 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Dec 2013

CVE-2013-4458  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of AF_INET6 address results. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1914.

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