Use After Free Affecting glibc-profile package, versions <2.31-150300.63.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.67% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-GLIBCPROFILE-6009123
  • published19 Oct 2023
  • disclosed18 Oct 2023

Introduced: 18 Oct 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 glibc-profile to version 2.31-150300.63.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-profile package and not the glibc-profile package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 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

version 3.1