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Debian: CVE-2023-40546: shim -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 29, 2024
Added
May 15, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-shim
Title
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