CVE-2013-7424 Information

Description

The getaddrinfo function in glibc before 2.15 when compiled with libidn and the AI_IDN flag is used allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid free) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors as demonstrated by an internationalized domain name to ping6.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1627.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/21 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72710 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186614 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981942 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18011 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=2e96f1c7