Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-25139): glibc vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-25139): glibc vulnerability

Severity

10

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

02/03/2023

Created

11/21/2024

Added

11/19/2024

Modified

01/28/2025

Description

sprintf in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.37 has a buffer overflow (out-of-bounds write) in some situations with a correct buffer size. This is unrelated to CWE-676. It may write beyond the bounds of the destination buffer when attempting to write a padded, thousands-separated string representation of a number, if the buffer is allocated the exact size required to represent that number as a string. For example, 1,234,567 (with padding to 13) overflows by two bytes.

Solution(s)

• ubuntu-upgrade-glibc

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2023-25139
• CVE - 2023-25139
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25139