CVE-2023-4813
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.9 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Sep 12, 2023
Updated: Jan 21, 2024
CWE ID 416
Summary
CVE-2023-4813 is a vulnerability affecting the glibc library. In an unusual scenario, the gaih_inet function may access memory that has already been freed, leading to an application crash. This issue can only be exploited when the getaddrinfo function is invoked and the hosts database in /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with specific settings (SUCCESS=continue or SUCCESS=merge).
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Affected Products
- Gnu Glibc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Fedora Operating System
Affected Vendors
- Red Hat
- Fedora Project
- NetApp
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