Bug 2240541 (CVE-2023-5156)

Summary:	CVE-2023-5156 glibc: DoS due to memory leak in getaddrinfo.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	TEJ RATHI <trathi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	adudiak, agarcial, aoconnor, asegurap, bdettelb, caswilli, crarobin, dfreiber, dkuc, fjansen, ggastald, hkataria, jburrell, jmadigan, jmitchel, jsamir, jsherril, jtanner, kaycoth, kshier, luizcosta, meferrigno, ngough, nweather, pamccart, psegedy, rogbas, sbiarozk, stcannon, sthirugn, tcarlin, tkasparek, vkrizan, vkumar, vmugicag, yguenane
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	glibc 2.39	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	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.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2240543
Bug Blocks:	2240548

Description TEJ RATHI 2023-09-25 07:35:46 UTC

The fix for CVE-2023-4806 in upstream, introduces a memory leak in getaddrinfo.c which could lead to a Denial-of-Service.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec6b95c3303c700eb89eebeda2d7264cc184a796

Comment 1 TEJ RATHI 2023-09-25 07:45:16 UTC

Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2240543]