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CVE-2018-19591

high

Description

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, attempting to resolve a crafted hostname via getaddrinfo() leads to the allocation of a socket descriptor that is not closed. This is related to the if_nametoindex() function.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-06

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-09

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M52KE4YR3GNMHQUOS3DKAGZD5TQ5D5UH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO7WHN52GFMC5F2I2232GFIPSSXWFV7G/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042174

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106037

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d527c860f5a3f0ed687bd03f0cb464612dc23408

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=NEWS%3Bhb=HEAD

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23927

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190321-0003/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-12-04

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01508