Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-4806 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A flaw was found in glibc. In an extremely rare situation, the getaddrinfo function may access memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when a NSS module implements only the _nss_*_gethostbyname2_r and _nss_*_getcanonname_r hooks without implementing the _nss_*_gethostbyname3_r hook. The resolved name should return a large number of IPv6 and IPv4, and the call to the getaddrinfo function should have the AF_INET6 address family with AI_CANONNAME, AI_ALL and AI_V4MAPPED as flags.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237782
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4806
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-03
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NDAQWHTSVOCOZ5K6KPIWKRT3JX4RTZUR/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4DBUQRRPB47TC3NJOUIBVWUGFHBJAFDL/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DFG4P76UHHZEWQ26FWBXG76N2QLKKPZA/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5453
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5455
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7409
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0008/