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CVE-2023-4806

A flaw has been identified in glibc. In an extremely rare situation, the getaddrinfo function may access memory that has

A flaw has been identified in glibc. In an extremely rare situation, the getaddrinfo function may access memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when a NSS module implements only the _nss__gethostbyname2_r and _nss__getcanonname_r hooks without implementing the _nss_*_gethostbyname3_r hook.

The resolved name should return a large number of IPv6 and IPv4, and the call to the getaddrinfo function should have the AF_INET6 address family with AI_CANONNAME, AI_ALL and AI_V4MAPPED as flags.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9 EPSS 0.01895
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5.9
MEDIUM · CVSS v3.1 · secalert@redhat.com
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Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
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None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD18 Sep 2023 · 05:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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siemens-csafSSA-082556
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:13273-1
siemens-csafSSA-398330
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