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LIN7-7547 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2016-5417

Created: Feb 27, 2017    Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: Mar 21, 2017
Found In Version: 7.0.0.22
Fix Version: 7.0.0.24
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
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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