CVE-2024-2961 Affecting glibc-i18ndata package, versions <2.26-150000.13.73.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-GLIBCI18NDATA-7247025
  • published12 Jun 2024
  • disclosed11 Jun 2024

Introduced: 11 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-2961  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 glibc-i18ndata to version 2.26-150000.13.73.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-i18ndata package and not the glibc-i18ndata package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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.

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