The 2016 Pwnie Nominee For Best Server-Side Bug

glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2015-7547)

Credit: Fermin J. Serna

We have it on good authority that this vulnerability is in fact exploitable against Linux-based servers. Notably, yours. I guess that explains why you’ve been seeing the spike in segfaults on your webservers since then.

glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2015-7547)