VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4429

medium
Published 2016-06-10 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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
5.9

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the clntudp_call function in sunrpc/clnt_udp.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly unspecified other impact via a flood of crafted ICMP and UDP packets.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
—

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 debianbookwormfixed2.22-10
debian debianbullseyefixed2.22-10
debian debianforkyfixed2.22-10
debian debiansidfixed2.22-10
debian debiantrixiefixed2.22-10
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu18.04affected
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endExcluding":"2.24"}2.24

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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

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