cve-2023-5156
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-25 15:55
Modified
2024-09-14 03:00
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Glibc: dos due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5156Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240541Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec6b95c3303c700eb89eebeda2d7264cc184a796Mailing List, Patch
Impacted products
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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