CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
94.5%
Buffer overflow in the gethostbyname_r and other unspecified NSS functions
in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows
context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute
arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a
misaligned buffer.
Author | Note |
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sbeattie | only happens if gethostbyname_r etc functions are called with a misaligned buffer, which according to upstream in practice does not happen often |