CVE-2013-4458 (GCVE-0-2013-4458)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-12-12 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 16:45
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 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 AF_INET6 address results. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1914.
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