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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-0026

NIXPKGS-2026-0026
published on
Permalink CVE-2026-0915
7.5 HIGH
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): High (H)
  • Integrity (I): None (N)
  • Availability (A): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): High (H)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
  • Modified Availability (MA): None (N)
updated 3 months, 4 weeks ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
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  • @LeSuisse ignored
    24 packages
    • iconv
    • getent
    • locale
    • libc
    • mtrace
    • getconf
    • libiconv
    • glibcInfo
    • glibc_multi
    • glibcLocales
    • glibc_memusage
    • glibcLocalesUtf8
    • unixtools.getent
    • unixtools.locale
    • unixtools.getconf
    • tests.hardeningFlags-gcc.glibcxxassertionsStdenvUnsupp
    • tests.hardeningFlags-clang.glibcxxassertionsStdenvUnsupp
    • tests.hardeningFlags-clang.allExplicitDisabledGlibcxxAssertions
    • tests.hardeningFlags-gcc.allExplicitDisabledGlibcxxAssertions
    • tests.hardeningFlags-clang.glibcxxassertionsExplicitDisabled
    • tests.hardeningFlags-clang.glibcxxassertionsExplicitEnabled
    • tests.hardeningFlags-gcc.glibcxxassertionsExplicitDisabled
    • tests.hardeningFlags.allExplicitDisabledGlibcxxAssertions
    • tests.hardeningFlags-gcc.glibcxxassertionsExplicitEnabled
  • @LeSuisse accepted
  • @LeSuisse published on GitHub
getnetbyaddr and getnetbyaddr_r leak stack contents to DNS resovler

Calling getnetbyaddr or getnetbyaddr_r with a configured nsswitch.conf that specifies the library's DNS backend for networks and queries for a zero-valued network in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 can leak stack contents to the configured DNS resolver.

Affected products

glibc
  • =<2.42

Matching in nixpkgs

Ignored packages (24)

pkgs.mtrace

Perl script used to interpret and provide human readable output of the trace log contained in the file mtracedata, whose contents were produced by mtrace(3)

Package maintainers

Upstream advisory: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0002;hb=HEAD