CVE-2023-4806 (GCVE-0-2023-4806)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-18 16:33 – Updated: 2025-11-20 17:55
VLAI?
Title
Glibc: potential use-after-free in getaddrinfo()
Summary
A flaw has been identified in glibc. In an extremely rare situation, the getaddrinfo function may access memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when a NSS module implements only the _nss_*_gethostbyname2_r and _nss_*_getcanonname_r hooks without implementing the _nss_*_gethostbyname3_r hook. The resolved name should return a large number of IPv6 and IPv4, and the call to the getaddrinfo function should have the AF_INET6 address family with AI_CANONNAME, AI_ALL and AI_V4MAPPED as flags.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:2413 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5453 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237782 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:2.28-225.el8_8.6 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
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    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:2.28-225.el8_8.6 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:2.28-189.8.el8_6 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8
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    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:2.34-100.el9 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:2.34-60.el9_2.7 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:2.34-100.el9 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:2.34-60.el9_2.7 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:2.28-189.8.el8_6 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8
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    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Credits
This issue was discovered by Siddhesh Poyarekar (Red Hat).
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