CVE-2023-4813
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2022-03-01 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
A flaw was found 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.
See more information about CVE-2023-4813 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.9 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (glibc) | ELSA-2023-12872 | 2023-10-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (glibc) | ELSA-2023-5455 | 2023-12-19 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (glibc) | ELSA-2023-12873 | 2023-10-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (glibc) | ELSA-2023-5453 | 2023-10-10 |
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