CVE-2022-23219
Published: 14 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-23219 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Oracle Enterprise Operations Monitor. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 30.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-28308
Vulnerability details
The deprecated compatibility function clnt_create in the sunrpc module of the GNU C Library (aka glibc) through 2.34 copies its hostname argument on the stack without validating its length, which may result in a buffer overflow, potentially resulting in a…
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denial of service or (if an application is not built with a stack protector enabled) arbitrary code execution.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.