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glibc — security advisory
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.
- Products
- glibc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.36-3
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-4813
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4813
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.36-3
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.36-3
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.36-3
Complete source record
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