Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unaffected 0:2.28-225.el8_8.6 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unaffected 0:2.28-225.el8_8.6 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support | unaffected 0:2.28-189.8.el8_6 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected 0:2.34-100.el9 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected 0:2.34-60.el9_2.7 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected 0:2.34-100.el9 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected 0:2.34-60.el9_2.7 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unaffected 0:2.28-189.8.el8_6 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unknown |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unknown |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | affected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | affected |
CWE
CWE-416
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:2413
- 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
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8
- 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
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231110-0003/
No English description supplied.