CVE-2016-5417

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

3.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 88.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-02-16 18:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:00Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-06-10

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-399

Data version

5.1

Document digest

17d33759d9ef87d215c617d52ea214fa03eda70838a3b128fbbfa120ca90e828

• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19257x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com92257http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92257vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2212c1420c92a33b0e0bd9a34938c9814a56c0f7x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160802 glibc: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/5mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.sourceware.org[libc-alpha] 20160804 The GNU C Library version 2.24 is now availablehttps://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST