CVE-2023-4813mediumCWE-416

CVE-2023-4813: medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Glibc: potential use-after-free in gaih_inet()

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 1.9%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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