CVE

CVE-2016-5417 (glibc)

CVE-2016-5417 (glibc)

Memory leak in the __res_vinit function in the IPv6 name server management code in libresolv in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging partial initialization of internal resolver data structures.

Source: CVE-2016-5417 (glibc)

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