Security Advisory

CVE-2023-4813

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-09-12 21:54:33
Last updated 2025-11-11 19:29:11
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.