CVE-2018-19591

medium

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`2.29-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.28-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.28-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.28-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.28-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.28-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19591

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.