Use After Free Affecting glibc-common package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.67% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-GLIBCCOMMON-5899393
  • published13 Sept 2023
  • disclosed1 Mar 2022

Introduced: 1 Mar 2022

CVE-2023-4813  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 glibc-common.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-common package and not the glibc-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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