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LIN8-10249 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2018-19591

Created: Dec 19, 2018    Updated: Jan 25, 2019
Resolved Date: Jan 9, 2019
Found In Version: 8.0.0.28
Fix Version: 8.0.0.29
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Toolchain

Description

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, attempting to resolve a crafted hostname via getaddrinfo() leads to the allocation of a socket descriptor that is not closed. This is related to the if_nametoindex() function.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19591

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