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CVE-2016-4429 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence

Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2016-4429

CVE-2016-4429

MEDIUM5.9

Stack-based buffer overflow in the clntudp_call function in sunrpc/clnt_udp

Published Jun 10, 2016

Modified 1 years ago

Details

Stack-based buffer overflow in the clntudp_call function in sunrpc/clnt_udp.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly unspecified other impact via a flood of crafted ICMP and UDP packets.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.html

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102073

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00027.html

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-12-01

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20112

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=bc779a1a5b3035133024b21e2f339fe4219fb11c

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3759-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3759-2/

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4429

https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

HighAC:H

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

5.9/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedJun 10, 2016

ModifiedAug 6, 2024