CVE-2013-1914: gnu glibc

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-1914 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in gnu glibc. EPSS estimates a 4.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 29-04-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of domain conversion results.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.