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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 5.9 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2023-09-12
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Affected products
- Fedora (Fedoraproject)
- Glibc (Gnu)
- Active Iq Unified Manager (Netapp)
- H300s Firmware (Netapp)
- H410c Firmware (Netapp)
- H410s Firmware (Netapp)
- H500s Firmware (Netapp)
- H700s Firmware (Netapp)
- 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 (Redhat)
- Rhel Eus (Redhat)
- Rhev Hypervisor (Redhat)
- 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:2413
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5453
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5455
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7409
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4813
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237798
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231110-0003/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
