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CVE-2013-7423

Public on 2015-02-24
Modified on 2015-12-13
Description

It was discovered that, under certain circumstances, glibc's getaddrinfo() function would send DNS queries to random file descriptors. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to send DNS queries to unintended recipients, resulting in information disclosure or data loss due to the application encountering corrupted data.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
1.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2015-12-14 10:00 ALAS-2015-617
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2015-04-22 16:12 ALAS-2015-513

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N