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CVE record · CVE-2023-6779

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

CVSS 8.2 HighEPSS 0.032 · 88th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 31 Jan 2024, 14:07 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given glibc
  • unaffected 2.39
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: compat-glibc https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: glibc https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: compat-glibc https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: glibc https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: glibc https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: glibc https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Fedora Fedora Package name: glibc https://packages.fedoraproject.org/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-6779
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-122
Tags
Published
31 Jan 2024
Updated
14 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.2 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.032, the 88th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 31 Jan 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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