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AHheap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerabiity exists in GNU...

High severity Unreviewed Published Jan 11, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 3, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

AHheap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerabiity exists in GNU inetutils 2.2 in cmds.c, which caused a denial of service.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 10, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 11, 2022
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(46th percentile)

Weaknesses

Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-46058

GHSA ID

GHSA-33hj-353r-q5fv

Source code

No known source code

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