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GLSA-202505-06 : glibc: Buffer Overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 235724

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202505-06 (glibc: Buffer Overflow)

 A vulnerability has been discovered in glibc. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All glibc users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-libs/glibc-2.40-r8

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202505-06

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=948592

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235724

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202505-06.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/12/2025

Updated: 5/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-0395

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:glibc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-0395