CVE-2023-6779 Glibc: off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()

2024-01-3114:07:41

CWE-122

redhat

www.cve.org

glibc

buffer overflow

heap-based

__vsyslog_internal

application crash

8.2 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

8.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

50.2%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

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