Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when the openlog function was not called, or called with the ident argumen...

USN-6620-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the syslog function call. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code and possibly escalate privileges...

Ubuntu 23.10 : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-6620-1)

The remote Ubuntu 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6620-1 advisory. It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the syslog function call. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code and...

AZL-34735 CVE-2023-6246 affecting package glibc for versions less than 2.38-6

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when the openlog function was not called, or called with the ident argument set to NULL, and the program name the basename of...

CVE-2023-6780

An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message,...

CVE-2023-6246

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when the openlog function was not called, or called with the ident argument set to NULL, and the program name the basename of...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-6779

An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 INTMAX bytes, leading to an incorrect calculation of t...

CVE-2023-6780

An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-6780

An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message,...

CVE-2023-6246

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when the openlog function was not called, or called with the ident argument set to NULL, and the program name the basename of...

Integer overflow

An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message,...

CVE-2023-6780

An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message,...

CVE-2023-6780 Glibc: integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()

An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message,...

CVE-2023-6780 Glibc: integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()

An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message,...

CVE-2023-6780 Glibc: integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()

An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message,...

CVE-2023-6780

An integer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 very long message, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message,...

CVE-2023-6779

An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 INTMAX bytes, leading to an incorrect calculation of t...

CVE-2023-6779 Glibc: off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()

An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 INTMAX bytes, leading to an incorrect calculation of t...

CVE-2023-6779

The CVE describes a heap-based off-by-one overflow in glibc’s __vsyslog_internal invoked by syslog/vsyslog when a message exceeds INT_MAX. Affected are glibc 2.37 and newer; exploitation may cause an application crash. Evidence from connected sources indicates a fix in patched glibc releases (e.g...

CVE-2023-6779 Glibc: off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()

An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow was found in the vsysloginternal 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 INTMAX bytes, leading to an incorrect calculation of t...