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CVE-2015-1781 Detail

Description

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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74255 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032178 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0863.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2959eda9272a03386 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-1781
NVD Published Date:
09/28/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.