CVE-2016-5180

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with an escaped trailing dot.

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-28

https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.in/2016/09/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html

https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html

https://c-ares.haxx.se/CVE-2016-5180.patch

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3143-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93243

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3682

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3