VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-3706

high
Published 2016-06-10 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving hostent conversion. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4458.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.22-8
debian debianbullseyefixed2.22-8
debian debianforkyfixed2.22-8
debian debiansidfixed2.22-8
debian debiantrixiefixed2.22-8
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endExcluding":"2.23"}2.23

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.