VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-39046

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.92%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-08-31
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.36. When the syslog function is passed a crafted input string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a portion of the contents of the heap.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Primary references