Microsoft security update for CVE-2023-40546
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- Azure Linux 3.0 ARM
- Azure Linux 3.0 x64
- CBL Mariner 2.0 ARM
- CBL Mariner 2.0 x64
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | CBL-Mariner | 15.8-3 |
| — | CBL-Mariner | 15.8-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-40546
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.2 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
A flaw was found in Shim when an error happened while creating a new ESL variable. If Shim fails to create the new variable, it tries to print an error message to the user; however, the number of parameters used by the logging function doesn't match the format string used by it, leading to a crash under certain circumstances.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-40546, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).