Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-4813 - 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 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
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237798
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4813
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5453
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5455
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231110-0003/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7409