Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-4813 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.9 - MEDIUM
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 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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gnu
133
Application
Netapp
1
OS
Redhat
10
OS
Fedoraproject
1
OS
Netapp
5
Hardware
Netapp
5

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)