{"id":"MGASA-2017-0091","summary":"Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerability","details":"Florian Weimer discovered a NULL pointer dereference in the DNS\nresolver of the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this to cause\na denial of service (CVE-2015-5180).\n\nTim Ruehsen discovered that the getaddrinfo() implementation in the\nGNU C Library did not properly track memory allocations. An attacker\ncould use this to cause a denial of service (CVE-2016-5417).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:23:13.047130129Z","published":"2017-03-27T13:55:27Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-5180","CVE-2016-5417"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0091.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20552"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"glibc","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/glibc?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.20-24.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0091.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}