CVE-2013-1914: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of domain conversion results.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: up to and including 2.17; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.6 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.2.2 only; …

Published 2013-04-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.