GHOST gethostbyname() heap overflow in glibc (CVE-2015-0235)
Publish Date: 01 September 2015
Schweregrad:: Hoch
CVE Kennungen:: CVE-2015-0235
Hinweisdatum: 28 Januar 2015
Beschreibung
Heap-based buffer overflow in the __nss_hostname_digits_dots function in glibc 2.2, and other 2.x versions before 2.18, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) gethostbyname or (2) gethostbyname2 function, aka "GHOST."