vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2023-4813: glibc -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 12, 2023
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-glibcno-fix-debian-deb-package
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