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CVE-2015-1781
published 2015-09-28

CVE-2015-1781: 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…

medium6.8CVSS 3.1
AVNACMAuNCPIPAP
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.

Affected

15 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
debiandebian_linux
debianglibc< glibc 2.19-20 (bookworm)glibc 2.19-20 (bookworm)
eglibceglibc>= 0 < 2.19-0ubuntu6.82.19-0ubuntu6.8
eglibceglibc>= 0 < 2.19-0ubuntu6.92.19-0ubuntu6.9
gnuglibc<= 2.21
gnuglibc>= 0 < 2.19-202.19-20
gnuglibc>= 0 < 2.19-202.19-20
gnuglibc>= 0 < 2.19-202.19-20
gnuglibc>= 0 < 2.19-202.19-20
suselinux_enterprise_debuginfo
suselinux_enterprise_desktop
suselinux_enterprise_server

CVSS provenance

nvd6.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv6.8MEDIUM