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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2023-0687

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CVE-2023-0687

glibc: gmon memory corruption due wrong calculation of required buffer size

Published Modified CWE 120
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS.

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 4.0glibc, glibc-devel, glibc-i18n and 4 more2.32-15.ph4
Photon OS 5.0glibc, glibc-devel, glibc-i18n and 5 more2.36-8.ph5
chainguardglibc0
wolfiglibc0
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SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 4.0glibc2.32-15.ph4
Photon OS 4.0glibc-devel2.32-15.ph4
Photon OS 4.0glibc-i18n2.32-15.ph4
Photon OS 4.0glibc-iconv2.32-15.ph4
Photon OS 4.0glibc-lang2.32-15.ph4
Photon OS 4.0glibc-nscd2.32-15.ph4
Photon OS 4.0glibc-tools2.32-15.ph4
Photon OS 5.0glibc2.36-8.ph5
Photon OS 5.0glibc-devel2.36-8.ph5
Photon OS 5.0glibc-i18n2.36-8.ph5
Photon OS 5.0glibc-iconv2.36-8.ph5
Photon OS 5.0glibc-lang2.36-8.ph5
Photon OS 5.0glibc-libs2.36-8.ph5
Photon OS 5.0glibc-nscd2.36-8.ph5
Photon OS 5.0glibc-tools2.36-8.ph5
chainguardglibc0
wolfiglibc0

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.