CVE-2016-2224

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2224
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2224.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2224
Downstream
Published
2017-03-24T15:59:00.513Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:44:37.785526Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The _decodedotted function in libc/inet/resolv.c in uClibc-ng before 1.0.12 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving compressed items in a reply.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
94493929f674f4410c2743fa3dd82fd37b70c58f
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.0.11"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:uclibc-ng_project:uclibc-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.0.1
v1.0.10
v1.0.11
v1.0.2
v1.0.4
v1.0.5
v1.0.6
v1.0.7
v1.0.8
v1.0.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2224.json"