CVE-2016-3075 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Glibc
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
10.9%
top 6.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 1
Latest updateMay 14
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the nss_dns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a long name.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Fedora 23, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-7x96-w64p-8chw: Stack-based buffer overflow in the nss_dns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2↗2022-05-14
CVEList▶
CVE-2016-3075: Stack-based buffer overflow in the nss_dns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2↗2016-06-01
OSV▶
CVE-2016-3075: Stack-based buffer overflow in the nss_dns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2↗2016-06-01