CVE-2023-5941

libc stdio buffer overflow

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Nov 8, 2023
Updated
Feb 13, 2025
Reserved
Nov 2, 2023

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Description

In versions of FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE prior to 12.4-RELEASE-p7 and FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE prior to 13.2-RELEASE-p5 the __sflush() stdio function in libc does not correctly update FILE objects' write space members for write-buffered streams when the write(2) system call returns an error.  Depending on the nature of an application that calls libc's stdio functions and the presence of errors returned from the write(2) system call (or an overridden stdio write routine) a heap buffer overflow may occur. Such overflows may lead to data corruption or the execution of arbitrary code at the privilege level of the calling program.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
  • CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FreeBSDFreeBSD
  • 12.4-RELEASE to before p7Affected
  • 13.2-RELEASE to before p5Affected

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