CVE-2003-0859: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: version 2.3.2 only
• GNU Zebra: version 0.91a only; version 0.92a only; version 0.93a only; version 0.93b only
• Intel IA64: any version
• Quagga Quagga Routing Software Suite: version 0.96.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 2.1 only; version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation: version 2.1 only
• Sgi Propack: version 2.2.1 only; version 2.3 only

Published 2003-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.