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CVE-2023-5156 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/4 CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/5 CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/6 CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/8 CVE
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5156 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240541 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-01 CVE
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30884 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec6b95c3303c700eb89eebeda2d7264cc184a796 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime cwe source acceptance level NIST   Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-5156
NVD Published Date:
09/25/2023
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.