cve-2023-5156
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-25 15:55
Modified
2025-01-10 22:20
Summary
A flaw was found in the GNU C Library. A recent fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced the potential for a memory leak, which may result in an application crash.
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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