Out-of-bounds Read in The Gnu C Library Glibc

CVE-2026-4437

Calling gethostbyaddr or gethostbyaddr_r with a configured nsswitch.conf that specifies the library's DNS backend in the GNU C Library version 2.34 to version 2.43 could, with a crafted response from the configured DNS server, result in a…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.001 (25.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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