CVE-2016-5417

Description

Memory leak in the __res_vinit function in the IPv6 name server management code in libresolv in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures.

References

https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.html

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2212c1420c92a33b0e0bd9a34938c9814a56c0f7

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19257

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92257

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3