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LIN8-5885 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2016-5417

Created: Feb 27, 2017    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Mar 17, 2017
Found In Version: 8.0.0.14
Fix Version: 8.0.0.16
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Toolchain

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-5417

Workaround

apply attached patch to oe-core.

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