cve-2023-6779
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-31 14:07
Modified
2024-08-02 08:42
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Glibc: off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal()
References
Impacted products
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