It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-407 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2023-5156)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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 (ALAS2023-2023-407)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 184432

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.1 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:U") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.0 Nov 4, 2023, 4:08 PM New Plugin Feed: 202311041608