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Status published
Medium
CVE-2015-1781
Buffer overflow in the gethostbyname_r and other unspecified NSS functions...
Vulnerability Description
Buffer overflow in the gethostbyname_r and other unspecified NSS functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a misaligned buffer.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2959eda9272a03386
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0863.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032178
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74255
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Affected Vendor
suse
View all reports →Affected Software
linux enterprise debuginfo, linux enterprise desktop, linux enterprise server, glibc, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
11, 0, 7.0, 12.04, 14.04, 15.04
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 28th, 2015
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.