CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-4813
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-12
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (< 2.36)
• 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 ibm z systems eus s390x 9.2
• redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems s390x 9.2
• redhat enterprise linux for power little endian 9.2 ppc64le
• redhat enterprise linux for power little endian eus 9.2 ppc64le
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 9.2
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 8.8
• fedoraproject fedora 38
• netapp active iq unified manager
• netapp h300s firmware
• netapp h500s firmware
• netapp h700s firmware
• netapp h410s firmware
• netapp h410c firmware
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:2413 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5453 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5455 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7409 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4813 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237798 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8 www.openwall.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5453 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5455 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7409 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4813 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237798 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231110-0003/ security.netapp.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cert-portal.siemens.com