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CVE-2016-10739
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-01-21T19:29:00.247 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:40:16.077

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — glibc

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