Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10739

5.3
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date January 21, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory