Vulnerability CVE-2023-0687
Published: 2023-02-06

Description:
A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Type:

CWE-120

 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'))

CVSS2 => (AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
6.4/10
2.5/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Adjacent network
High
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Glibc 

 References:
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220246
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29444
https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/20230204114138.5436-1-leo@yuriev.ru/
https://vuldb.com/?id.220246
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