vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-3075: eglibc, glibc -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 29, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-eglibcdebian-upgrade-glibc
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