CVE-2023-5156

A flaw was found in the GNU C Library. A recent fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced the potential for a memory leak, which may result in an application crash.

Published: Sep 25, 2023
Updated: Sep 27, 2023
CVE: CVE-2023-5156
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

CWE-401

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
redhat / enterprise_linux	8.0	8.0.x
redhat / enterprise_linux	9.0	9.0.x
gnu / glibc	2.34	2.39

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5156
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240541
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec6b95c3303c700eb89eebeda2d7264cc184a796

Vulnerability Database

289,599

CVE-2023-5156