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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2025-0395: glibc: Buffer Overflow

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 22, 2025
Added
May 13, 2025
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

When the assert() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.13 to 2.40 fails, it does not allocate enough space for the assertion failure message string and size information, which may lead to a buffer overflow if the message string size aligns to page size.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-glibc
Title
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