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CVE-2016-10739

Public on 2019-01-21
Modified on 2020-10-22
Description

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could lead applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid string, without the possibility of embedded HTTP headers or other potentially dangerous substrings.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2019-11-19 17:30 ALAS-2019-1320
Amazon Linux 2 - Core glibc 2020-10-22 17:37 ALAS2-2020-1517

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L