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Ubuntu: USN-6409-1 (CVE-2023-4527): GNU C Library vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-6409-1 (CVE-2023-4527): GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/18/2023
Created
10/04/2023
Added
10/04/2023
Modified
10/23/2024

Description

A flaw was found in glibc. When the getaddrinfo function is called with the AF_UNSPEC address family and the system is configured with no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf, a DNS response via TCP larger than 2048 bytes can potentially disclose stack contents through the function returned address data, and may cause a crash.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libc6

References

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