Improper Input Validation Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.29)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319072
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed21 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jan 2019

CVE-2016-10739  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.29 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could lead applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid string, without the possibility of embedded HTTP headers or other potentially dangerous substrings.

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