PT-2013-3465 · Gnu+4 · Gnu C Library+4

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2013-04-24 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2013-1914

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) versions 2.17 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a hostname or IP address that triggers a large number of domain conversion results. This is due to a stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c.

Recommendations For GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) versions 2.17 and earlier, update to a version later than 2.17 to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2084

CESA-2013_1605

CVE-2013-1914

DLA-165-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10154-1

RHSA-2013:0769

RHSA-2013:1605

RHSA-2013_0769

RHSA-2013_1605

SUSE-RU-2015:0794-1

SUSE-SU-2013_0858-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0253-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0439-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0551-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Gnu C Library

Red Hat

Suse

References · 243

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/smtp/exim_gethostbyname_bof.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/aaronfay/CVE-2015-0235-test · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/makelinux/CVE-2015-0235-workaround · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/arm13/ghost_exploit · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/geekben/cve-collections/blob/master/cve20150235poc.c · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mikesplain/CVE-2015-0235-cookbook · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mholzinger/CVE-2015-0235_GHOST · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2207 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-2084 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-1605.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09813 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8984 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0475 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09867 · Security Note