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LIN8-3926 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2016-3706

Created: Jun 13, 2016    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jul 10, 2016
Found In Version: 8.0
Fix Version: 8.0.0.8
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Toolchain

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving hostent conversion. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4458.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-3706

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