CVE-2024-2961 Affecting glibc package, versions <2.31-13+deb11u9
Snyk CVSS
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (13th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-6617104
- published 18 Apr 2024
- disclosed 17 Apr 2024
Introduced: 17 Apr 2024
CVE-2024-2961 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
glibc
to version 2.31-13+deb11u9 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc
package and not the glibc
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
The iconv() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.39 and older may overflow the output buffer passed to it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to crash an application or overwrite a neighbouring variable.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-2961
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2024-0004
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3I4KYS6EU6S7QZ47WFNTPVAHFIUQNEL/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YAMJQI3Y6BHWV3CUTYBXOZONCUJNOB2Z/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BTJFBGHDYG5PEIFD5WSSSKSFZ2AZWC5N/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/24/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/17/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/18/4
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/05/msg00001.html