CVE-2026-4437

medium

Published 2026-05-26 · Modified 2026-05-26

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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

Calling gethostbyaddr or gethostbyaddr_r with a configured nsswitch.conf that specifies the library's DNS backend in the GNU C Library version 2.34 to version 2.43 could, with a crafted response from the configured DNS server, result in a violation of the DNS specification that causes the application to treat a non-answer section of the DNS response as a valid answer.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.41-12+deb13u3`
sid	Fixed	`2.42-14`
forky	Fixed	`2.42-14`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.36-9+deb12u14`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	gcp

References

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

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