Microsoft advisory for CVE-2024-2961
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products3
- azl3 glibc 2.38-10 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 glibc 2.35-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 glibc 2.35-7 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-2961
- EchelonGraph score
- 9.0 CRITICAL
- 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
The iconv() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.39 and older may overflow the output buffer passed to it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to crash an application or overwrite a neighbouring variable.
Published by GNU C Library, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-2961, 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).