getaddrinfo

  1. CVE-2023-5156 Glibc getaddrinfo Memory Leak and DoS Risk (Fix in 2.39)

    The glibc library’s getaddrinfo implementation suffered a subtle — but operationally important — regression in late 2023 that introduced a memory leak capable of producing denial‑of‑service conditions in networked services: CVE‑2023‑5156 is a memory‑leak bug in getaddrinfo.c, introduced as a...
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  2. CVE-2023-4806: glibc getaddrinfo Use After Free and NSS Hooks

    A subtle but consequential bug in the GNU C Library’s name-resolution path — tracked as CVE-2023-4806 — exposed a rare use‑after‑free in getaddrinfo() that can crash networked applications and, in realistic scenarios, be abused for denial of service. The issue is notable not because it’s easy to...
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  3. The first-returned IP address is incorrect when you use the getaddrinfo function on a multi-homed co

    Fixes an issue in which the first-returned IP address is incorrect when an application calls the getaddrinfo function on a computer. This issue occurs on a multi-homed computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows... Link Removed
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    • application error function getaddrinfo ip address multihomed network issues troubleshooting windows 7 windows server windows vista
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