PT-2016-5358 · Gnu+5 · Glibc+5

Florian Weimer · Published 2016-03-31 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-3075

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions glibc versions prior to 2.24

Description The issue is a stack-based buffer overflow in the nss dns implementation of the getnetbyname function, allowing context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in stack consumption and application crash, via a long name.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.24, update to version 2.24 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1480

ALT-PU-2016-2499

CESA-2016_2573

CVE-2016-3075

DLA-494-1

MGASA-2016-0206

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10154-1

RHSA-2016:2573

RHSA-2016_2573

SUSE-SU-2016:1721-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1733-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2156-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1

USN-2985-1

USN-2985-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Glibc

References · 121

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1781 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8776 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8776 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2856 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8777 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8121 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5277 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1721-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1781 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3075 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9761 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2156-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3075 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2573.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/ICIY2WE4MCXHRVFZPY24JZKPAXG4PDIZ · Vendor Advisory