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CVE-2015-7547 Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the

CVE ID: CVE-2015-7547
Vendors: Gnu
Date: February 18, 2016

Severity: Medium
Impact score: 6.40
Exploit score: 8.60

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the (1) send_dg and (2) send_vc functions in the libresolv library in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response that triggers a call to the getaddrinfo function with the AF_UNSPEC or AF_INET6 address family, related to performing "dual A/AAAA DNS queries" and the libnss_dns.so.2 NSS module.