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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-39046: glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-39046: glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/31/2022
Created
10/05/2023
Added
10/05/2023
Modified
10/05/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-glibc

References

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