CVE-2023-5156
Glibc: dos due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c
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Glibc: dos due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c
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.
Reserved 2023-09-25 | Published 2023-09-25 | Updated 2025-01-10 | Assigner redhatMissing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
| 2023-09-25: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2023-09-25: | Made public. |
Red Hat would like to thank Romain Geissler for reporting this issue.
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5156
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240541 (RHBZ#2240541)
sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884
sourceware.org/...h=ec6b95c3303c700eb89eebeda2d7264cc184a796
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