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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2003-0859 json

The getifaddrs function in GNU libc (glibc) 2.2.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages a…

published 2003-11-18 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0850

cvss
4.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The getifaddrs function in GNU libc (glibc) 2.2.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages as other users to the kernel netlink interface.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2003-0859 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 nscd 2.3.2-95.6, glibc 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-utils 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-common 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-profile 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-debuginfo-common 2.3.2-95.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 nscd 2.3.2-95.6, glibc 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-utils 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-common 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-profile 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-debuginfo-common 2.3.2-95.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 nscd 2.3.2-95.6, glibc 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-utils 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-common 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-profile 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-debuginfo-common 2.3.2-95.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 nscd 2.3.2-95.6, glibc 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-utils 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-common 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-profile 2.3.2-95.6, glibc-debuginfo-common 2.3.2-95.6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:334
  • Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0 Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:325

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.