medium5.9
CVE-2023-4813
A flaw has been identified in glibc.
Impact
A flaw has been identified in glibc. In an uncommon situation, the gaih_inet function may use memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when the getaddrinfo function is called and the hosts database in /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with SUCCESS=continue or SUCCESS=merge.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnu | Glibc | before 2.36 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Versions 8.0, 9.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Eus | Versions 8.8, 9.2 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems Eus S390x | Version 9.2 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems S390x | Version 9.2 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian | Version 9.2_ppc64le |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus | Version 9.2_ppc64le |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Server Aus | Version 9.2 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Server Tus | Version 8.8 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Version 38 |
| Netapp | Active Iq Unified Manager | All versions |
| Netapp | H300s Firmware | All versions |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5453
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5455
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7409
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4813
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237798
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231110-0003/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html