vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-4813

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 12, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 30, 2025

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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