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CVE-2013-1914

Public on 2013-04-29
Modified on 2014-09-16
Description

It was found that getaddrinfo() did not limit the amount of stack memory used during name resolution. An attacker able to make an application resolve an attacker-controlled hostname or IP address could possibly cause the application to exhaust all stack memory and crash.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2013-12-17 21:39 ALAS-2013-270

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P