CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-4527

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-09-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-09-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-121, CWE-125

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (>= 2.36 < 2.36.113) • gnu glibc (>= 2.37 < 2.37.38) • gnu glibc (>= 2.38 < 2.38.19) • redhat codeready linux builder eus 9.2 • redhat codeready linux builder eus for power little endian 9.0 ppc64le • redhat codeready linux builder eus for power little endian eus 9.2 ppc64le • redhat codeready linux builder for arm64 9.0 aarch64 • redhat codeready linux builder for arm64 eus 9.2 aarch64 • redhat codeready linux builder for ibm z systems 9.0 s390x • redhat codeready linux builder for ibm z systems eus 9.2 s390x • redhat enterprise linux 8.0 • redhat enterprise linux 9.0 • redhat enterprise linux eus 8.8 • redhat enterprise linux eus 9.2 • redhat enterprise linux for arm 64 9.0 aarch64 • redhat enterprise linux for arm 64 eus 9.2 aarch64 • redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems 8.0 s390x • redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems eus 8.8 s390x • redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems eus s390x 9.2 • redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems s390x 9.2 • redhat enterprise linux for power little endian 8.0 ppc64le • redhat enterprise linux for power little endian 9.2 ppc64le • redhat enterprise linux for power little endian eus 8.8 ppc64le • redhat enterprise linux for power little endian eus 9.2 ppc64le • redhat enterprise linux server aus 9.2 • redhat enterprise linux server for power little endian update services for sap solutions 9.2 ppc64le • redhat enterprise linux tus 8.8 • fedoraproject fedora 37 • fedoraproject fedora 38 • fedoraproject fedora 39 • netapp h300s firmware • netapp h500s firmware • netapp h700s firmware • netapp h410s firmware • netapp h410c firmware

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness
  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References