fkie_cve-2016-5417
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-02-17 02:59
Modified
2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
Summary
Memory leak in the __res_vinit function in the IPv6 name server management code in libresolv in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures.
References
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