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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 violation of the DNS specification that causes the application to treat a non-answer section of the DNS response as a valid answer.

CVE ID	Severity	Score	Technologies	Component name	CISA KEV exploit	Has fix	Published date
CVE-2026-24660	CRITICAL	9.8	NixOS	LibRaw-static	No	Yes	Apr 07, 2026
CVE-2026-24450	CRITICAL	9.8	NixOS	LibRaw-devel	No	Yes	Apr 07, 2026
CVE-2026-21413	CRITICAL	9.8	NixOS	LibRaw-devel	No	Yes	Apr 07, 2026
CVE-2026-39883	HIGH	7.3	Packer	thanos	No	Yes	Apr 08, 2026
CVE-2026-39882	MEDIUM	5.3	Prometheus	frankenphp-8.3	No	Yes	Apr 08, 2026

CVE-2026-4437:
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