CVE-2016-10739

MEDIUM

glibc < 2.28 - Improper Input Validation in getaddrinfo

Title source: llm

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.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106672

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347549

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00082.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2118

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3

EPSS 0.0004

EPSS Percentile 12.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (2)

gnu/glibc < 2.28

opensuse/leap 15.0

Published Jan 21, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026