Is RHEL's glibc vulnerable to the heap-based buffer overflow in "__vsyslog_internal"?

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Issue

  • Is RHEL's glibc vulnerable to the heap-based buffer overflow in the __vsyslog_internal function?
  • How to update or patch CVE-2023-6246 in Red Hat glibc?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all versions)
  • GNU C Library (glibc)

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