Medium

Glibc: potential use-after-free in getaddrinfo()

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

A flaw has been identified 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.

Announced 18 Sept 2023Source revision 1

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CVE-2023-4806

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2023-4806

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/9/product

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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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Related CVEs: CVE-2023-4806
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Publisher severity

medium

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Event: #24278 · Revision 1
Added to Heist Feed: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:32:58 GMT
Publisher date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:33:57 GMT

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