VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-1914

medium
Published 2013-04-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of domain conversion results.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.17-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2.17-2
debian debianforkyfixed2.17-2
debian debiansidfixed2.17-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2.17-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endIncluding":"2.17"}
gnuglibc2.0.1
gnuglibc2.0.6
gnuglibc2.2
gnuglibc2.2.1
gnuglibc2.2.2
gnuglibc2.2.3
gnuglibc2.2.4
gnuglibc2.2.5
gnuglibc2.3
gnuglibc2.3.1
gnuglibc2.3.2
gnuglibc2.3.3
gnuglibc2.3.4
gnuglibc2.3.5
gnuglibc2.3.6
gnuglibc2.4
gnuglibc2.5
gnuglibc2.5.1
gnuglibc2.6
gnuglibc2.6.1
gnuglibc2.7
gnuglibc2.8
gnuglibc2.9
gnuglibc2.10.1
gnuglibc2.11
gnuglibc2.11.1
gnuglibc2.11.2
gnuglibc2.11.3
gnuglibc2.12.1
gnuglibc2.12.2
gnuglibc2.13
gnuglibc2.14
gnuglibc2.14.1
gnuglibc2.15
gnuglibc2.16

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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