CVE-2023-5156
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5156
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-5156.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-5156
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2023-09-25T15:55:15.558Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-15T01:48:57.020609141Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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
{ "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-401" ], "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5156.json", "cna_assigner": "redhat" }- References
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8
- https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec6b95c3303c700eb89eebeda2d7264cc184a796
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5156
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5156.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5156
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-01
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240541
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884
Affected packages
Git / github.com/bminor/glibc
Git / sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
- Events
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Introducedae37d06c7d127817ba43850f0f898b793d42aea7Fixedef321e23c20eebc6d6fb4044425c00e6df27b05f
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "2.34" }, { "fixed": "2.39" } ], "source": "CPE_RANGE" }