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CVE-2013-4357

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

The eglibc package before 2.14 incorrectly handled the getaddrinfo() function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04
• Debian Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• eglibc: before 2.14 — fixed in 2.14
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 18, 19
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 11.0-sp2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: eglibc 2.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00020.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/17/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/17/8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/28/18
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/21
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/24/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67992
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2306-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2306-2
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2306-3
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4357
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4357

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