Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-4458

Title: Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-4458.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Dec 12, 2013
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.20%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-4458: Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) hostname or (2) IP address that triggers a large number of AF_INET6 address results. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1914.

Impacted Vendors

G
gnu 1
G
gentoo 1
S
suse 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16072 https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-10/msg00733.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16072 https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-10/msg00733.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-4458 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.