CVE-2018-19591

Description

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, attempting to resolve a crafted hostname via getaddrinfo() leads to the allocation of a socket descriptor that is not closed. This is related to the if_nametoindex() function.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d527c860f5a3f0ed687bd03f0cb464612dc23408

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=NEWS%3Bhb=HEAD

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190321-0003/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-06

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-09

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M52KE4YR3GNMHQUOS3DKAGZD5TQ5D5UH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO7WHN52GFMC5F2I2232GFIPSSXWFV7G/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042174

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106037

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3