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CVE-2023-5156
7.5 HIGH
- CVSS version: 3.1
- Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
- Attack complexity (AC): LOW
- Privileges required (PR): NONE
- User interaction (UI): NONE
- Scope (S): UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
- Integrity impact (I): NONE
- Availability impact (A): HIGH
Glibc: dos due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c
A flaw was found in the GNU C Library. A recent fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced the potential for a memory leak, which may result in an application crash.
References
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884 x_transferred
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/4 x_transferred
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/5 x_transferred
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/6 x_transferred
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8 x_transferred
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-01 x_transferred
Affected products
glibc
- ==2.39
compat-glibc
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.mtrace
Perl script used to interpret and provide human readable output of the trace log contained in the file mtracedata, whose contents were produced by mtrace(3)
pkgs.glibcInfo
GNU Info manual of the GNU C Library
pkgs.glibc_multi
None
pkgs.glibcLocales
Locale information for the GNU C Library
pkgs.glibc_memusage
GNU C Library
pkgs.glibcLocalesUtf8
Locale information for the GNU C Library
pkgs.unixtools.getent
None
pkgs.unixtools.locale
None
pkgs.unixtools.getconf
None
Package maintainers
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@ConnorBaker Connor Baker <ConnorBaker01@gmail.com>
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@Ma27 Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>