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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 12, 2023· Updated Nov 11, 2025

Glibc: potential use-after-free in gaih_inet()

CVE-2023-4813

Description

A flaw has been identified in glibc. In an uncommon situation, the gaih_inet function may use memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when the getaddrinfo function is called and the hosts database in /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with SUCCESS=continue or SUCCESS=merge.

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