Vulnerability CVE-2023-6779


Published: 2024-01-31

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
glibc syslog() Heap-Based Buffer Overflow
Qualys Security ...
01.02.2024

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6779
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254395
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/30/6

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