Security Advisory
CVE-2023-4813
5.9
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
September 12, 2023
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory