CVE-2023-4156

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-4156
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-25 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:22:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 38 All All All
Application Gnu Gawk All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cve-details MISC access.redhat.com
2215930 – (CVE-2023-4156) CVE-2023-4156 gawk: heap out of bound read in builtin.c MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199755 Ubuntu Security Notification for gawk Vulnerability (USN-6373-1)
  • 296105 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 63.157.1 Missing (CPUOCT2023)
  • 355875 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for gawk : ALAS2023-2023-292
  • 356769 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for gawk : ALAS2-2023-2357
  • 673351 EulerOS Security Update for gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-2875)
  • 673352 EulerOS Security Update for gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-2894)
  • 673466 EulerOS Security Update for gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3173)
  • 673579 EulerOS Security Update for gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3005)
  • 673606 EulerOS Security Update for gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3208)
  • 673851 EulerOS Security Update for gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3028)
  • 907461 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for gawk (30045)
  • 907485 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for gawk (30045-1)
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