CVE-2023-5156

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5156
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-5156.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-5156
Downstream
AZL (2)
BELL (1)
CGA (2)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
MINI (1)
OESA (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Published
2023-09-25T15:55:15Z
Modified
2026-10-22T10:35:31Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Glibc: dos due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-401"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5156.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/glibc.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
Events
Introduced
ae37d06c7d127817ba43850f0f898b793d42aea7
Fixed
ef321e23c20eebc6d6fb4044425c00e6df27b05f
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.34"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "2.39"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

glibc-2.*
glibc-2.34
glibc-2.34.9000
glibc-2.35
glibc-2.35.9000
glibc-2.36
glibc-2.36.9000
glibc-2.37
glibc-2.37.9000
glibc-2.38
glibc-2.38.9000

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-5156.json"