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Ubuntu: USN-4768-1 (CVE-2014-3484): musl vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4768-1 (CVE-2014-3484): musl vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/20/2020
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the __dn_expand function in network/dn_expand.c in musl libc 1.1x before 1.1.2 and 0.9.13 through 1.0.3 allow remote attackers to (1) have unspecified impact via an invalid name length in a DNS response or (2) cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid name length in a DNS response, related to an infinite loop with no output.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-musl

References

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