🛡️ CVE-2023-0687
🟡 CVSS 4.6 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-120 NVD
4.6
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-120
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-02-06
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
glibc — 2.38

References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29444
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220246
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory https://vuldb.com/?id.220246
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29444
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220246
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory https://vuldb.com/?id.220246

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