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Medium 6.6
Potential stack-based buffer clash during tilde expansion in wordexp
When expanding paths that begin with a tilde (~) followed by a username, the internal parse_tilde function extracts the username to determine the user's home directory. The implementation allocates memory for this username directly on the stack using the strn…
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Medium 5.4
gethostbyaddr and gethostbyaddr_r return invalid DNS hostnames
Calling gethostbyaddr or gethostbyaddr_r with a configured nsswitch.conf that specifies the library's DNS backend in the GNU C library version 2.34 to version 2.43 could result in an invalid DNS hostname being returned to the caller in violation of the DNS sp…
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Medium 5.9
The regcomp function in the GNU C library version from 2.4 to 2.41 is subject to a double free if some previous allocat…
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Medium 6.2
When the assert() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.13 to 2.40 fails, it does not allocate enough space for the …
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Medium 5.9
nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response If the Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) cache fails to add a not-found netgroup response to the cache, the client request can result in a null pointer dereference. This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 whe…
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Medium 5.3
Glibc: integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()
An integer overflow was found in the __vsyslog_internal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when these functions are called with a very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation…
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Medium 6.5
Glibc: stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
A flaw was found in glibc. When the getaddrinfo function is called with the AF_UNSPEC address family and the system is configured with no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf, a DNS response via TCP larger than 2048 bytes can potentially disclose stack contents thr…