Vulnerability CVE-2023-40546


Published: 2024-01-29

Description:
A flaw was found in Shim when an error happened while creating a new ESL variable. If Shim fails to create the new variable, it tries to print an error message to the user; however, the number of parameters used by the logging function doesn't match the format string used by it, leading to a crash under certain circumstances.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40546
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241796

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