Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-34736.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-34736
Upstream
Published
2024-01-31T14:15:48Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:12:39.178971Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2023-6779 affecting package glibc for versions less than 2.38-6
Details

An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow was found in the __vsysloginternal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when these functions are called with a message bigger than INTMAX bytes, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message, resulting in an application crash. This issue affects glibc 2.37 and newer.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / glibc

Package

Name
glibc
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/glibc

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.38-6

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-34736.json"