Vulnerability CVE-2013-4458


Published: 2013-12-12

Description:
Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 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 AF_INET6 address results. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1914.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
glibc AF_INET6 stack overflow
Vincent Danen
23.10.2013

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
SUSE -> Linux enterprise debuginfo 
SUSE -> Linux enterprise server 
GNU -> Glibc 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16072
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-10/msg00733.html

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