Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in glibc's gethostbyname_r and other NSS Functions

CVE-2015-1781 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Buffer overflow in the gethostbyname_r and other unspecified NSS functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a misaligned buffer.

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