It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-359 advisory.

    A flaw was found in glibc. When the getaddrinfo function is called with the AF_UNSPEC address family and     the system is configured with no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf, a DNS response via TCP larger than 2048     bytes can potentially disclose stack contents through the function returned address data, and may cause a     crash. (CVE-2023-4527)

    A flaw was found in glibc. In an extremely rare situation, the getaddrinfo function may access memory that     has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when a NSS module     implements only the nss_gethostbyname2_r and nss_getcanonname_r hooks without implementing the     nss*_gethostbyname3_r hook. The resolved name should return a large number of IPv6 and IPv4, and the call     to the getaddrinfo function should have the AF_INET6 address family with AI_CANONNAME, AI_ALL and     AI_V4MAPPED as flags. (CVE-2023-4806)

    A flaw was found in glibc. In an uncommon situation, the gaih_inet function may use memory that has been     freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when the getaddrinfo function is     called and the hosts database in /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with SUCCESS=continue or SUCCESS=merge.
    (CVE-2023-4813)

    A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the     GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted     GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with     elevated privileges. (CVE-2023-4911)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2023 : compat-libpthread-nonshared, glibc, glibc-all-langpacks (ALAS2023-2023-359)

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Version 1.7 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.6 Jan 29, 2024, 4:10 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202401291610
Version 1.5 Dec 22, 2023, 3:04 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework metasploit" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202312221504
Version 1.5 Jan 29, 2024, 2:15 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework core" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202401291415
Version 1.4 Nov 21, 2023, 6:18 PM CISA reference Plugin Feed: 202311211818
Version 1.4 Dec 22, 2023, 1:07 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit framework metasploit" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202312221307
Version 1.3 Nov 1, 2023, 1:41 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202311011341
Version 1.2 Oct 6, 2023, 5:06 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from 6.1 to 6.8. "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C" to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C". "CVSSv3 score" changed from 6.5 to 7.8. "CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-4527" to "CVE-2023-4911") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2023-4911") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2023-4911, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Plugin Feed: 202310061706
Version 1.1 Oct 4, 2023, 4:16 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202310041616
Version 1.0 Oct 4, 2023, 4:00 AM New Plugin Feed: 202310040400