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UBUNTU-CVE-2024-0911 (CVE-2024-0911)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-02-06 15:15 – Updated: 2025-10-24 05:06 – Source website

Details

A flaw was found in indent, a program for formatting C code. This issue may allow an attacker to trick a user into processing a specially crafted file to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, causing the application to crash.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-0911	REPORT
	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-indent/202…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0911	REPORT

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CVE-2024-0911 (GCVE-0-2024-0911)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-06 14:13 – Updated: 2025-11-04 22:05

Title

Indent: heap-based buffer overflow in set_buf_break()

Summary

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-02-06 21:28 UTC

CWE

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

fedora redhat root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0911	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260399	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-indent/202…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
		Affected: 2.2.13

Date Public

2024-01-23 00:00

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