{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2024-01-30T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "glibc: off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()",
    "id" : "2254395",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254395"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "8.2",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-193",
  "details" : [ "An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow was found in the __vsyslog_internal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when these functions are called with a message bigger than INT_MAX bytes, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message, resulting in an application crash. This issue affects glibc 2.37 and newer.", "An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow was found in the __vsyslog_internal function of the glibc library. This function is called by the syslog and vsyslog functions. This issue occurs when these functions are called with a message bigger than INT_MAX bytes, leading to an incorrect calculation of the buffer size to store the message, resulting in an application crash. This issue affects glibc 2.37 and newer." ],
  "statement" : "The glibc package, as shipped with Red Hat products, is not affected by this vulnerability because this issue was introduced in glibc 2.37, this glibc version is not used by any Red Hat product.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Threat Research Unit for reporting this issue.",
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "compat-glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "compat-glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6779\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6779\nhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/30/6\nhttps://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/cve-2023-6246/syslog.txt" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-6779",
  "csaw" : false
}