CVE-2016-5417: Gnu Glibc vulnerability
Gnu · Glibc
Affected: Gnu Glibc · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)
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Higher than 88% of scored CVEs
Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.
DescriptionCVE.org
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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- Exploitation
- Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Gnu
- Published
- February 2017
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