CVE-2016-10739

Summary

CVECVE-2016-10739
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-01-21 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-08-06 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionIn the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could lead applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid string, without the possibility of embedded HTTP headers or other potentially dangerous substrings.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Glibc All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
20018 – (CVE-2016-10739) getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing characters (CVE-2016-10739) MISC sourceware.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
GNU glibc CVE-2016-10739 Security Bypass Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1250-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
1347549 – (CVE-2016-10739) CVE-2016-10739 glibc: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing characters MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296073 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 24.75.2 Missing (CPUJUL2020)
  • 377248 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for glibc (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0112)
  • 671075 EulerOS Security Update for glibc (EulerOS-SA-2019-2476)
  • 671092 EulerOS Security Update for glibc (EulerOS-SA-2019-2155)
  • 900018 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for glibc 2.28
  • 903342 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for glibc (1942)
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