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CVE-2015-5180

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

res_query in libresolv in glibc before 2.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and process crash).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
• GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.24

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99324
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3239-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3239-2
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0805
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249603
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-19
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=8492
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18784
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=fc82b0a2dfe7dbd35671c10510a8da1043d746a5
• https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-02/msg00079.html
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99324

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