CVE-2023-5156

glibc: DoS due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 25, 2023

Updated · July 3, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime