🛡️ CVE-2023-4813
🟡 CVSS 5.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
5.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-12
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-09-26

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
active-iq-unified-manager
enterprise-linux
enterprise-linux-eus
enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems-eus-s390x
enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems-s390x
enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian
enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian-eus
enterprise-linux-server-aus
enterprise-linux-server-tus
fedora
glibc 2.36
h300s-firmware
h410c-firmware
h410s-firmware
h500s-firmware
h700s-firmware

References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237798
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237798

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