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CVE-2016-10739

Publication date 21 January 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
eglibc 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
21.10 impish Not in release
21.04 hirsute Not in release
20.10 groovy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
19.10 eoan Not in release
19.04 disco Not in release
18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable
glibc 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored change too intrusive
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored change too intrusive
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes


mdeslaur

glibc uses this internally to parse config files, fixing this may introduce unwanted regressions and changes in behaviour


leosilva

See CVE-2019-18348 for Python that is affected by this issue.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L