CVE-2023-4813
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 3.1
- 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS
- 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- gnu:glibc
- netapp:active_iq_unified_manager
- netapp:h300s_firmware
- netapp:h410c_firmware
- netapp:h410s_firmware
- netapp:h500s_firmware
- netapp:h700s_firmware
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_eus_s390x
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_s390x
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus