In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could lead applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid string, without the possibility of embedded HTTP headers or other potentially dangerous substrings.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.3 · gnu, opensuseNVD modified 2026-10-14 07:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 13
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00082.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106672 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2118
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347549 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00082.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106672 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2118
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347549 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html