CVE-2023-4813

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions glibc (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw was found in glibc, where 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. The issue can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.