CVE-2018-19591
In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, attempting to resolve a crafted hostname via getaddrinfo() leads to the allocation of a socket descriptor that is not closed. This is related to the if_nametoindex() function.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.5 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2018-12-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20, CWE-404
Affected products
- Fedora (Fedoraproject)
- Glibc (Gnu)
- Simatic S7-1500 Cpu 1518-4 Pndp Mfp (Siemens)
- Simatic S7-1500 Cpu 1518f-4 Pndp Mfp (Siemens)
- Siplus S7-1500 Cpu 1518-4 Pndp Mfp (Siemens)
References
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=NEWS%3Bhb=HEAD
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO7WHN52GFMC5F2I2232GF…
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106037
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23927
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M52KE4YR3GNMHQUOS3DKAG…
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-09
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042174
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d527c860f5a3f0ed687bd03f0cb464612dc23408
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190321-0003/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-06
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
