Bug 2450237

Summary: CVE-2026-4437 zig: glibc: Incorrect DNS response parsing via crafted DNS server response [fedora-43]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sandipan Roy <saroy>
Component: zigAssignee: Jan Drögehoff <sentrycraft123>
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Version: 43CC: baltevl, purin21345, sentrycraft123, suraj.ghimire7
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["19e0c09c-d489-45af-8efe-2212ef38cec5"]}
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Description Sandipan Roy 2026-03-23 06:56:28 UTC
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Comment 1 Jan Drögehoff 2026-03-24 17:49:59 UTC
*** Bug 2450234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jan Drögehoff 2026-03-24 17:50:05 UTC
*** Bug 2450230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jan Drögehoff 2026-03-24 17:50:14 UTC
*** Bug 2450228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jan Drögehoff 2026-03-24 17:53:34 UTC
neither `gethostbyaddr` nor `gethostbyaddr_r` are used by the Zig compiler or the Zig standard library.