Denial of Service Vulnerability in libresolv in GNU C Library (glibc)

CVE-2016-5417 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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