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CVE-2023-5156

Glibc: dos due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c

Published: 9/25/2023 Last updated: 1/10/2025 Reserved: 9/25/2023

A flaw was found in the GNU C Library. A recent fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced the potential for a memory leak, which may result in an application crash.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 7.5 High CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (1)

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Products affected (6)

Product Vendor Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat 9.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat < 15.7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat 9.5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat 3550-F_1.15.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat < 12.0.6174.8

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Credits (1)