Medium · published January 22, 2019
In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could lead applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid string, without the possibility of embedded HTTP headers or other potentially dangerous substrings.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| gnu/glibc | ≤ 2.28 | — |
| opensuse/leap | all versions | — |