CVE-2023-5156CWE-401

CVE-2023-5156

High · published September 25, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
76.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01626 · 76.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2023-09-25T20:15Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/glibc≥ 2.34, < 2.392.39
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
References (15)
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5156 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240541 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec6b95c3303c700eb89eebeda2d7264cc184a796 · [email protected]http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/4 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/5 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/6 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5156 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240541 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-01 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec6b95c3303c700eb89eebeda2d7264cc184a796 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-831302.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 SEP 15:55Z
    Glibc: dos due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c
    cvelistv5