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CVE-2023-6779

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

Published: 1/31/2024 Last updated: 6/13/2025 Reserved: 12/13/2023

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 assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 8.2 High CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Opam packages affected (1)

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Products affected (8)

Product Vendor Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat <= 5.4.*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat 2.6.35
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat <= 5.10.*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat <= 5.15.*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat <= 6.1.*
Fedora Fedora <= 6.6.*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat < 2.6.35
glibc n/a < bdb43af4fdb39f844ede401bdb1258f67a580a27

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