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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-3075: ELSA-2016-3638: glibc security update (LOW) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-3075: ELSA-2016-3638: glibc security update (LOW) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
03/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/09/2016
Modified
11/29/2024

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. A stack overflow vulnerability was found in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r. On systems with nsswitch configured to include "networks: dns" with a privileged or network-facing service that would attempt to resolve user-provided network names, an attacker could provide an excessively long network name, resulting in stack corruption and code execution.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-static
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nscd

References

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