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CVE-2026-4437

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CVE-2026-4437

Published: Mar 20, 2026

Modified: Mar 23, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

Calling gethostbyaddr or gethostbyaddr_r with a configured nsswitch.conf that specifies the library's DNS backend in the GNU C Library version 2.34 to version 2.43 could, with a crafted response from the configured DNS server, result in a violation of the DNS specification that causes the application to treat a non-answer section of the DNS response as a valid answer.

VendorProductVersions

The GNU C Library

glibc

affected
2.34 - <= 2.43

Weaknesses (CWE)

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