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Cent OS: CVE-2013-1914: CESA-2013:0769 (glibc)

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Cent OS: CVE-2013-1914: CESA-2013:0769 (glibc)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/29/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of domain conversion results.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-glibc
  • centos-upgrade-glibc-common
  • centos-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • centos-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • centos-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • centos-upgrade-nscd

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