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CVE-2022-39046
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-08-31T06:15:07.467 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:57:29.600

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — glibc

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