๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2023-4156

MEDIUM 4.4

Heap out of bound read in builtin.c

CVSS Score
4.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

A heap out-of-bounds read flaw was found in builtin.c in the gawk package. This issue may lead to a crash and could be used to read sensitive information.

CWE CWE-125
Vendor n/a
Product gawk
Published Sep 25, 2023
Last Updated Sep 24, 2024
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Affected Versions

n/a / gawk
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions affected
Fedora / Fedora
All versions affected

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4156 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215930

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Jiongchi Yu for reporting this issue.