CVE-2013-1914

Summary

CVECVE-2013-1914
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-04-29 22:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionStack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of domain conversion results.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.10.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.13 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.14 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.14.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.15 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.16 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.5.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.6.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.7 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.8 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.9 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Malformed Request af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:163 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
947882 – (CVE-2013-1914) CVE-2013-1914 glibc: Stack (frame) overflow in getaddrinfo() when processing entry mapping to long list of address structures af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
15330 – (CVE-2013-1914) Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results (CVE-2013-1914) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceware.org
Bug 813121 – VUL-1: CVE-2013-1914: glibc: stack overflow in getaddrinfo() sorting af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.novell.com
oss-security - CVE Request: glibc getaddrinfo() stack overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Full Disclosure: SEC Consult SA-20210901-0 :: Multiple vulnerabilities in MOXA devices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
VMSA-2014-0008.2 | United States af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vmware.com
USN-1991-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
oss-security - Re: CVE Request: glibc getaddrinfo() stack overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:284 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Security Advisory SA52817 - GNU C Library "getaddrinfo()" Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/commitdiff af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceware.org
oss-security - Re: CVE Request: glibc getaddrinfo() stack overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:283 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Moxa Command Injection / Cross Site Scripting / Vulnerable Software ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com
sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/commitdiff MITRE sourceware.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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