CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-4527

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.67%

77th percentile - higher than 77% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw was found in glibc. When getaddrinfo is called with the AF_UNSPEC address family and the system is configured with no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf, a DNS response via TCP larger than 2048 bytes can potentially disclose stack contents through the returned address data and may cause a crash.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could obtain stack information or cause a crash in applications using getaddrinfo, potentially leading to data leakage or denial of service.

Recommendation

Update glibc to a patched version. Consider disabling no-aaaa mode or limiting DNS responses over TCP.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in glibc. When the getaddrinfo function is called with the AF_UNSPEC address family and the system is configured with no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf, a DNS response via TCP larger than 2048 bytes can potentially disclose stack contents through the function returned address data, and may cause a crash.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS