CVE-2013-4458

Summary

CVECVE-2013-4458
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-12-12 18:55:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:16:00 UTC
DescriptionStack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 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 AF_INET6 address results. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1914.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.9 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 2.17 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.9 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 2.17 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc All All All All
Application Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11 sp2 All All
Application Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:0470-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
1022280 – (CVE-2013-4458) CVE-2013-4458 glibc: Stack (frame) overflow in getaddrinfo() when called with AF_INET6 MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:284 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
access.redhat.com | CVE-2013-4458 MISC access.redhat.com
Siddhesh Poyarekar - [PATCH][BZ #16072] Fix stack overflow due to large AF_INET6 requests MLIST sourceware.org Patch
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:283 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
16072 – (CVE-2013-4458) Segmentation fault in getaddrinfo() when processing entry mapping to long list of AF_INET6 address structures CONFIRM sourceware.org Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 670286 EulerOS Security Update for glibc (EulerOS-SA-2021-1790)
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