Use After Free Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.36)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-5901538
  • published14 Sept 2023
  • disclosed12 Sept 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Sep 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.36 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free due to the gaih_inet function. An attacker can cause an application crash by exploiting the use of freed memory. This is only exploitable if the getaddrinfo function is called and the hosts database in /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with SUCCESS=continue or SUCCESS=merge.

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