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7.5 HIGH
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): NONE
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
  • Integrity impact (I): NONE
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 6 months, 1 week ago
Glibc: dos due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c

A flaw was found in the GNU C Library. A recent fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced the potential for a memory leak, which may result in an application crash.

References

Affected products

glibc
  • ==2.39
compat-glibc

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.libc

GNU C Library

pkgs.mtrace

Perl script used to interpret and provide human readable output of the trace log contained in the file mtracedata, whose contents were produced by mtrace(3)

pkgs.glibcInfo

GNU Info manual of the GNU C Library

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