CVE-2016-5180
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 8.6%
exploitation probability
8.6%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with an escaped trailing dot.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.htmlhttps://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.htmlhttps://c-ares.haxx.se/CVE-2016-5180.patchhttps://googlechromereleases.blogspot.in/2016/09/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-28https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3682http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93243http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3143-1