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high 7.5

CVE-2013-4357 json

The eglibc package before 2.14 incorrectly handled the getaddrinfo() function.

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-4241

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • eglibc eglibc 2.14

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4357 updated cvss 4.3

glibc: stack overflow in getaddrinfo()'s use of alloca()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 glibc Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 nscd, glibc, glibc-utils, glibc-common Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 nscd, glibc, glibc-utils, glibc-common
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/28/18 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/21 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.suse.com https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4357 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • eglibc eglibc

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

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