Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.3.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319127
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed15 Dec 2003
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Dec 2003

CVE-2003-0859  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for glibc.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The getifaddrs function in GNU libc (glibc) 2.2.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages as other users to the kernel netlink interface.

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