CVE-2015-5180

HIGH 7.5CVE-2015-5180 · Published 27/06/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-5180 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting glibc (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.2%, higher than 93.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
glibc gnu	`≤ 2.24`	No fix yet

res_query in libresolv in glibc before 2.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and process crash).

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

≤ 2.24

No fix yet

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