CVE-2024-2961 (GCVE-0-2024-2961)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-17 17:27
Modified
2025-10-30 03:55
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The GNU C Library | glibc |
Version: 2.1.93 < 2.40 |
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