5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
71.8%
The send_dg function in resolv/res_send.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or
libc6) before 2.20 does not properly reuse file descriptors, which allows
remote attackers to send DNS queries to unintended locations via a large
number of requests that trigger a call to the getaddrinfo function.
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | fixed by any/cvs-resolv-reuse-fd.diff in utopic |