Security Advisory
CVE-2018-19591
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
December 4, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory