Out-of-bounds Write Affecting glibc package, versions <2.37-15


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-GLIBC-6210094
  • published31 Jan 2024
  • disclosed31 Jan 2024

Introduced: 31 Jan 2024

CVE-2023-6779  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable glibc to version 2.37-15 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow was found in the __vsyslog_internal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when these functions are called with a message bigger than INT_MAX bytes, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message, resulting in an application crash. This issue affects glibc 2.37 and newer.

CVSS Scores

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