CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-4813

MediumCVSS 5.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.93%

80th percentile - higher than 80% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw has been identified 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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can cause application crash, leading to denial of service.

Recommendation

Update glibc to a version containing the fix or modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to avoid SUCCESS=continue and SUCCESS=merge.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw has been identified 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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS