0.006 Low
EPSS
Percentile
77.6%
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.
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1653993
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19591 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19591