GHSA-qx6j-g797-jg9rMediumCVSS 5.9

A flaw was found in glibc. In an uncommon situation, the gaih_inet function may use memory that...

Published
September 13, 2023
Last Modified
October 15, 2026

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📋 Description

A flaw was found 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.

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