Vulnerability CVE-2013-1914
Published: 2013-04-29   Modified: 2013-04-30

Description:
Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of domain conversion results.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
glibc getaddrinfo() stack overflow
Marcus Meissner
03.04.2013
Med.
Moxa Command Injection / Cross Site Scripting / Vulnerable Software
T. Weber
01.09.2021

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Glibc 

 References:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0769.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1605.html
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15330
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=1cef1b19089528db11f221e938f60b9b048945d7
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:163
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/03/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/03/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/05/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58839
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.html
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813121
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947882
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
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