Published: 25/09/2023 Updated: 23/02/2024

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 0

A flaw was found in the GNU C Library. A recent fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced the potential for a memory leak, which may result in an application crash.

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Debian Bug report logs - #1053002 glibc: CVE-2023-5156: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for CVE-2023-4806 Package: src:glibc; Maintainer for src:glibc is GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:54:02 UTC Severity: impor ...

Description This CVE is under investigation by Red Hat Product Security ...

Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing

CWE-401 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240541 https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec6b95c3303c700eb89eebeda2d7264cc184a796 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5156 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-01 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053002 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-348-10 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-5156

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