931308 – CVE-2024-2961 sys-libs/ glibc buffer overflow leading to remote code execution

Bug 931308 - CVE-2024-2961 sys-libs/ glibc buffer overflow leading to remote code execution

Summary: CVE-2024-2961 sys-libs/ glibc buffer overflow leading to remote code execution

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 930177

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal critical (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Reported:	2024-05-06 16:10 UTC by pord
Modified:	2024-05-06 16:17 UTC (History)
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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

2024-05-06 16:17:05 UTC


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