CVE-2016-5180
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5180
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5180.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5180
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-10-03T15:59:03.270Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-14T04:42:10.434711Z
- Severity
-
- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
Heap-based buffer overflow in the arescreatequery function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with an escaped trailing dot.
- References
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93243
- https://c-ares.haxx.se/CVE-2016-5180.patch
- https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3682
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3143-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-28
- https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.in/2016/09/stable-channel-updates-for-chrome-os.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/nodejs/node
Affected versions
v0.*
v0.10.0
v0.10.1
v0.10.10
v0.10.11
v0.10.12
v0.10.13
v0.10.14
v0.10.15
v0.10.16
v0.10.17
v0.10.18
v0.10.19
v0.10.2
v0.10.20
v0.10.21
v0.10.22
v0.10.23
v0.10.24
v0.10.25
v0.10.26
v0.10.27
v0.10.28
v0.10.29
v0.10.3
v0.10.30
v0.10.31
v0.10.32
v0.10.33
v0.10.34
v0.10.35
v0.10.36
v0.10.37
v0.10.38
v0.10.39
v0.10.4
v0.10.40
v0.10.41
v0.10.42
v0.10.43
v0.10.44
v0.10.45
v0.10.46
v0.10.47
v0.10.5
v0.10.6
v0.10.7
v0.10.8
v0.10.9