CVE-2015-1781

Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo < 2.21 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Buffer overflow in the gethostbyname_r and other unspecified NSS functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response, which triggers a call with a misaligned buffer.

References (14)

Core 14
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0863.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18287
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032178
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74255

Scores

EPSS 0.0475
EPSS Percentile 89.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (8)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.04
debian/debian_linux 7.0
gnu/glibc < 2.21
suse/linux_enterprise_debuginfo 11 sp3 (2 CPE variants)
suse/linux_enterprise_desktop 11 sp3 (2 CPE variants)
suse/linux_enterprise_server 11 sp3 (3 CPE variants)
Published Sep 28, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026