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CVE-2016-3075

CVE-2016-3075

EPSS 7.5%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2573.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19879https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85732http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1