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Bug 931308

Summary: CVE-2024-2961 sys-libs/ glibc buffer overflow leading to remote code execution
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: pord <gordon.parton>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: critical    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description pord 2024-05-06 16:10:24 UTC
Description
The iconv() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.39 and older may overflow the output buffer passed to it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to crash an application or overwrite a neighbouring variable.
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2024-05-06 16:17:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 930177 ***