CVE-2023-0687CWE-120

CVE-2023-0687

Medium · published February 7, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.6
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01094 · 65.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Published
2023-02-07T00:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/glibc< 2.382.38
References (9)
https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/20230204114138.5436-1-leo%40yuriev.ru/ · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29444 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220246 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?id.220246 · [email protected]https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/20230204114138.5436-1-leo%40yuriev.ru/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29444 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220246 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://vuldb.com/?id.220246 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 FEB 00:00Z
    A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38
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