CVE-2013-1914

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-04-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-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.

Affected products

GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.17; 2.0.1, 2.0.6, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3 (+29)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164014/Moxa-Command-Injection-Cross-Site-Scripting-Vulnerable-Software.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0769.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1605.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/0
http://secunia.com/advisories/52817
http://secunia.com/advisories/55113
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15330
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=1cef1b19089528db11f221e938f60b9b048945d7
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:163
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/03/2

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