CVE-2023-4806

Published: Sep 18, 2023

Modified: May 12, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.9

MEDIUM

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected `0:2.28-225.el8_8.6 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected `0:2.28-225.el8_8.6 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support	unaffected `0:2.28-189.8.el8_6 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected `0:2.34-100.el9 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected `0:2.34-60.el9_2.7 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected `0:2.34-100.el9 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected `0:2.34-60.el9_2.7 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected `0:2.28-189.8.el8_6 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	All versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	All versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	All versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	All versions