gsd-2023-4813
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:20
Details
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.
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CVE-2023-4813


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