CVE-2023-4806
Published: 18 September 2023
A flaw was found 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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
Priority reason: No known NSS modules expose the vulnerability |
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| mdeslaur | This is only an issue when using an NSS module with a very specific behaviour. There are no known NSS modules which are implemented this way. The fix for this issue introduced a leak, identified as CVE-2023-5156 which was later fixed with a subsequent commit. Older releases require backporting a dozen refactoring commits. |
| ccdm94 | One of the refactoring commits needed to fix this issue is also the fix for CVE-2023-4813. |
Priority
Status
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 5.9 |
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | High |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |