PT-2015-4192 · Gnu+5 · Glibc+5

Published 2015-01-08 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-9402

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions glibc versions prior to 2.21

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop. This occurs when the DNS backend in the Name Service Switch configuration is enabled and a positive answer is sent while a network name is being processed.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.21, update to version 2.21 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2084

CESA-2018_0805

CVE-2014-9402

DLA-122-1

DSA-3169-1

MGASA-2015-0013

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10154-1

RHSA-2018:0805

RHSA-2018_0805

SUSE-RU-2015:0794-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0253-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0439-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0526-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0551-1

USN-2519-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Glibc

References · 269

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/smtp/exim_gethostbyname_bof.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/local/glibc_realpath_priv_esc.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/0x00-0x00/CVE-2018-1000001 · 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
• 🔥 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17630 · 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://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09813 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8984 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2519-1 · Vendor Advisory