CVE detail

CVE-2023-6246 — CVE-2023-6246

Published 2024-01-31 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor gnu · Product glibc · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.4

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0479

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

91.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the __vsyslog_internal 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 argv[0]) is bigger than 1024 bytes, resulting in an application crash or local privilege escalation. This issue affects glibc 2.36 and newer.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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