NVD
- Id
- 20515
- Name
- CVE-2016-5180
- Description
- Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query 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.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 7.5
- Severity
- High
- CVSS Base Score
- 7.5
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.4
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 10
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-19
- Published
- 2016-10-03
- Modified Date
- 2017-01-06
- Seq
- 2016-5180