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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-91

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-91
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published March 27, 2017
Florian Weimer discovered a NULL pointer dereference in the DNS resolver of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (CVE-2015-5180). Tim Ruehsen discovered that the getaddrinfo() implementation in the GNU C Library did not properly track memory allocations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (CVE-2016-5417).

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiaglibc0 (affected), 2.20-24.mga5 (unaffected)—

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