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CVE-2016-3075

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the nss_dns implementation of the getnetbyname function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a long name.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
• GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.23
• Opensuse: 13.2

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2573.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85732
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19879
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.html

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