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CVE-2016-3706
high
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving hostent conversion. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4458.
References
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4ab2ab03d4351914ee53248dc5aef4a8c88ff8b9
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20010
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-12-01
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88440
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102073
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.html