Buffer Overflow Affecting mcj package, versions [,3.2.8a)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.16% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MCJ-9673562
  • published2 Nov 2022
  • disclosed2 Nov 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Nov 2022

CVE-2021-40241  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mcj to version 3.2.8a or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in w_help.c, which a user could trigger by setting a very long value for the LANG environment variable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1