Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glibc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-GLIBC-15767201
  • published26 Mar 2026
  • disclosed20 Mar 2026

Introduced: 20 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-4438  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-838  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by RHEL.

Calling gethostbyaddr or gethostbyaddr_r with a configured nsswitch.conf that specifies the library's DNS backend in the GNU C library version 2.34 to version 2.43 could result in an invalid DNS hostname being returned to the caller in violation of the DNS specification.