PT-2023-8453

CVE-2023-4806

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Published

2023-09-12

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Updated

2026-10-14

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.9
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions glibc (affected versions not specified)
Description A flaw was found in glibc, where the getaddrinfo function may access memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when a NSS module implements only the nss * gethostbyname2 r and nss * getcanonname r hooks without implementing the nss * gethostbyname3 r hook. The resolved name should return a large number of IPv6 and IPv4, and the call to the getaddrinfo function should have the AF INET6 address family with AI CANONNAME, AI ALL, and AI V4MAPPED as flags.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
ALSA-2023:5453
ALSA-2023:5455
AZL-29954
AZL-34738
CESA-2023_5455
DSA-5514-1
MGASA-2023-0270
OESA-2023-1688
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13273-1
RHSA-2023:5453
RHSA-2023_5453
RHSA-2023:5455
RHSA-2023_5455
RHSA-2023:7409
RLSA-2023:5455
ROSA-SA-2025-2637
USN-6541-1
USN-6541-2
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