Buffer overflow in strfmon and strfmon_l right-justification padding
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.7epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 68% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Calling strfmon and strfmon_l in the GNU C Library version 2.38 to 2.44 can write past the end of the caller-supplied output buffer when a conversion uses right-justified width padding.
Exploitation requires an application code path that calls strfmon or strfmon_l with right-justified width padding into a destination buffer that is large enough for the padding to succeed but too small for the internal memmove call. The field width or format may be attacker-influenced or a fixed susceptible pattern in the caller.
At the time of publication, no network-facing application impact is known.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Affected products
The GNU C Library · glibc