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Google: sys-libs/glibc: security update to 18244.85.5

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 450626

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2024-2961)

Solution

Update the sys-libs/glibc library and its related packages to version 18244.85.5 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-113.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 450626

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.35

Vendor

Vendor Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2961

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2024

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (CosmicSting: Magento Arbitrary File Read (CVE-2024-34102) + PHP Buffer Overflow in the iconv() function of glibc (CVE-2024-2961))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2961