CVE-2022-39046

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Glibc
Vendor
CVE Published:
31 August 2022

Summary

An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.36. When the syslog function is passed a crafted input string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a portion of the contents of the heap.

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29536
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0002/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-03
vendor-advisory

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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