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CVE-2023-0687

Published: 6 February 2023

** DISPUTED ** 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.

Notes

AuthorNote
iconstantin
Upstream does not consider this to be a security issue and
is disputing the CVE.
mdeslaur
marking as not-affected due to the issue being disputed

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
eglibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Not vulnerable

upstream Not vulnerable

xenial Does not exist

glibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable

focal Not vulnerable

jammy Not vulnerable

kinetic Not vulnerable

lunar Not vulnerable

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Not vulnerable

xenial Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H