medium5.3
CVE-2016-10739
In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by w…
Impact
In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could lead applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid string, without the possibility of embedded HTTP headers or other potentially dangerous substrings.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnu | Glibc | through 2.28 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Version 15.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00082.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106672
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2118
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347549
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html