CVE-2022-39046

An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.36

High · published August 31, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:H/I:N/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01801 · 78.3th percentile
Published
2022-08-31T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 31 AUG 00:00Z
    An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.36
    cvelistv5