CVE-2015-1781
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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| suse / linux_enterprise_server | 11-sp4 | 11-sp4.x |
| suse / linux_enterprise_desktop | 11-sp3 | 11-sp3.x |
| suse / linux_enterprise_debuginfo | 11-sp3 | 11-sp3.x |
| suse / linux_enterprise_server | 11-sp3 | 11-sp3.x |
| suse / linux_enterprise_desktop | 11-sp4 | 11-sp4.x |
| suse / linux_enterprise_debuginfo | 11-sp4 | 11-sp4.x |
| gnu / glibc | - | 2.21.x |
| debian / debian_linux | 7.0 | 7.0.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | 12.04.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | 14.04.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 15.04 | 15.04.x |
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74255
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032178
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0863.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2959eda9272a03386
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html
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