CVE-2018-19591
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 5.5%
exploitation probability
5.5%top 8% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO7WHN52GFMC5F2I2232GFIPSSXWFV7G/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M52KE4YR3GNMHQUOS3DKAGZD5TQ5D5UH/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-09https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-06https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190321-0003/https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23927https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d527c860f5a3f0ed687bd03f0cb464612dc23408https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=NEWS%3Bhb=HEADhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106037http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042174