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

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-2023-6780

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,...

Heap overflow

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...

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,...

Heap overflow

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 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-2023-6780

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

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...

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...

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...

glibc syslog() Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploit

Qualys discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the GNU C Library's vsysloginternal function, which is called by both syslog and vsyslog. This vulnerability was introduced in glibc 2.37 in August 2022. CVE-2023-6246: Heap-based buffer overflow in the glibc's syslog...

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,...

The vulnerability of the vsyslog_internal function in the glibc library, which allows an attacker to elevate their privileges to the root user level

The vulnerability of the vsysloginternal function in the glibc library is related to buffer overflow in dynamic memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to elevate their privileges to root user status by sending specially crafted data as input to the logging function...

UBUNTU-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...

PT-2024-1611 · Glibc +1 · Glibc +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: glibc versions 2.37 and newer Description: The issue is related to an off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in the vsyslog internal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. The overflow occur...

PT-2024-1610 · Glibc +1 · Glibc +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: glibc versions 2.37 and newer Description: The issue is related to an integer overflow in the vsyslog internal function of the glibc library, which is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This occurs when these functions are called wit...