An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.36. When the syslog function is passed a crafted input string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a portion of the contents of the heap.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-41592 An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.36. When the syslog function is passed a crafted input string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a portion of the contents of the heap.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-03T11:10:32.492Z

Reserved: 2022-08-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-39046

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Status : Modified

Published: 2022-08-31T06:15:07.467

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:17:26.680

Link: CVE-2022-39046

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-08-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-39046 - Bugzilla

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