CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-19591
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20, CWE-404
Description
In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, attempting to resolve a crafted hostname via getaddrinfo() leads to the allocation of a socket descriptor that is not closed. This is related to the if_nametoindex() function.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (<= 2.28)
• fedoraproject fedora 28
• fedoraproject fedora 29
Related
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106037 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042174 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO7WHN52GFMC5F2I2232GFIPSSXWFV7G/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M52KE4YR3GNMHQUOS3DKAGZD5TQ5D5UH/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-09 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-06 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190321-0003/ security.netapp.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23927 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=NEWS%3Bhb=HEAD sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d527c860f5a3f0ed687bd03f0cb464612dc23408 sourceware.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106037 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042174 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO7WHN52GFMC5F2I2232GFIPSSXWFV7G/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M52KE4YR3GNMHQUOS3DKAGZD5TQ5D5UH/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-09 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-06 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190321-0003/ security.netapp.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23927 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=NEWS%3Bhb=HEAD sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d527c860f5a3f0ed687bd03f0cb464612dc23408 sourceware.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cert-portal.siemens.com