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...

Fedora 38 : glibc (2024-07597a0fb3)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-07597a0fb3 advisory. Security fix for CVE-2023-6246, CVE-2023-6779, and CVE-2023-6780. CVE-2023-6246: vsysloginternal did not handle a case where printing a SYSLOGHEADER...

K000138426: glibc vulnerabilities CVE-2023-6246, CVE-2023-6779, and CVE-2023-6780

Security Advisory Description 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 t...

K000138425: SQLite vulnerability CVE-2023-7104

Security Advisory Description A vulnerability was found in SQLite SQLite3 up to 3.43.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function sessionReadRecord of the file ext/session/sqlite3session.c of the component make alltest Handler. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow...

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-2023-6246

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...

CVE-2023-6246 Glibc: heap-based buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()

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...

New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros

Malicious local attackers can obtain full root access on Linux machines by taking advantage of a newly disclosed security flaw in the GNU C library aka glibc. Tracked as CVE-2023-6246 CVSS score: 7.8, the heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability is rooted in glibc's vsysloginternal function, whic...

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...

Juniper Junos OS Vulnerability (JSA75735)

The version of Junos OS installed on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the JSA75735 advisory. - A Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon RPD of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network based...

CVE-2023-40548 Shim: interger overflow leads to heap buffer overflow in verify_sbat_section on 32-bits systems

A buffer overflow was found in Shim in the 32-bit system. The overflow happens due to an addition operation involving a user-controlled value parsed from the PE binary being used by Shim. This value is further used for memory allocation operations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. This fl...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

libtiff.so is vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow. The vulnerability is due to a lack of validation for row parameter in the TIFFReadRGBATileExt function within tifgetimage.c. This flaw allows a remote attacker to pass a crafted TIFF file to which results in improper handling of data, causin...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libtiff (EulerOS-SA-2024-1108)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : libtiff (EulerOS-SA-2024-1123)

According to the versions of the libtiff package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue was found in the tiffcp utility distributed by the libtiff package where a crafted TIFF file on processing may cause a heap-based buffe...

EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : libtiff (EulerOS-SA-2024-1108)

According to the versions of the libtiff package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue was found in the tiffcp utility distributed by the libtiff package where a crafted TIFF file on processing may cause a heap-based buffe...

RHEL 9 : sqlite (RHSA-2024:0465)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0465 advisory. SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. A large subset of SQL92 is supported. A complete database is stored in a single disk...

Oracle Linux 9 : sqlite (ELSA-2024-0465)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-0465 advisory. 3.34.1-7 - Fixes CVE-2023-7104 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus has not...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in DB2 JDBC driver shipped with IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager

Summary DB2 JDBC driver is shipped as part of the XMLToolkit component for IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager. Information about security vulnerabilities affecting DB2 JDBC driver has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2015-8383 DESCRIPTION: PCRE is vulnerable...

Amazon Linux 2 : firefox (ALASFIREFOX-2024-020)

The version of firefox installed on the remote host is prior to 115.6.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2FIREFOX-2024-020 advisory. A vulnerability was found in SQLite SQLite3 up to 3.43.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function...