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CVE-2023-40546

Shim: out-of-bounds read printing error messages PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A flaw was found in Shim when an error happened while creating a new ESL variable. If Shim fails to create the new variable, it tries to print an error message to the user; however, the number of parameters used by the logging function doesn't match the format string used by it, leading to a crash under certain circumstances.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7unaffected 0:15.8-3.el7 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7unaffected 0:15.8-1.el7 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 0:15.8-4.el8_9 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Supportunaffected 0:15.8-2.el8_2 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Serviceunaffected 0:15.8-2.el8_2 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutionsunaffected 0:15.8-2.el8_2 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Supportunaffected 0:15.8-2.el8_4 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Serviceunaffected 0:15.8-2.el8_4 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutionsunaffected 0:15.8-2.el8_4 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:15.8-2.el8_6 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:15.8-2.el8 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:15.8-2.el8 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 0:15.8-4.el9_3 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:15.8-3.el9 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:15.8-2.el9 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:15.8-2.el9 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:15.8-3.el9_2 before *

CWE

CWE-476

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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CISA-ADP

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