CVE - CVE-2015-1781

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-1781	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:1032178 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032178 MISC:74255 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74255 MISC:DSA-3480 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 MISC:FEDORA-2016-0480defc94 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html MISC:GLSA-201602-02 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 MISC:RHSA-2015:0863 URL:https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0863.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2015:1424 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:0470 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html MISC:USN-2985-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 MISC:USN-2985-2 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 MISC:[libc-alpha] 20150814 The GNU C Library version 2.22 is now available URL:https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html MISC:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html URL:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html MISC:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287 URL:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287 MISC:https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2959eda9272a03386 URL:https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2959eda9272a03386
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20150217	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20150217)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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