CVE security advisories and vulnerability history for glibc by sourceware.
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sourceware glibc has 57 published CVE records since 2016, of which 1 are in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and 12 have a known public exploit. The average CVSS base score across scored CVEs is 7.2.
This page aggregates every publicly disclosed vulnerability (CVE) affecting sourceware glibc, with a severity breakdown, the affected and patched versions, the most common weakness types, and the full CVE list.
How the CVSS severity of sourceware glibc's CVEs breaks down, plus how many are exploited in the wild or have public exploit code.
35 additional CVEs have no CVSS severity score.
In CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
1
One of sourceware glibc's CVEs is confirmed exploited in the wild.
Public exploits
12
12 of sourceware glibc's CVEs have a known public exploit available.
Browse every sourceware glibc version named in a CVE, then pick one to see only the CVEs that affect it.
57 CVEs
Added to CISA KEV 2023-11-21
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The CWE weakness categories most often found in sourceware glibc CVEs. Follow any weakness for its full explanation.
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Common questions about sourceware glibc vulnerabilities.
sourceware glibc has 57 published CVE records since 2016.
Yes — 1 of sourceware glibc's CVEs are listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirmed exploited in the wild and carrying a CISA remediation deadline.
Yes — 12 of sourceware glibc's CVEs have a known public exploit.
1,250 distinct sourceware glibc versions are named across its CVEs. Use the version filter above to see the CVEs affecting a specific version.
sourceware glibc's CVEs most often map to these CWE weakness types: CWE-120 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')), CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read), CWE-908 (Use of Uninitialized Resource), CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write).
sourceware glibc has 4 critical and 11 high-severity CVEs.
The average CVSS base score across sourceware glibc's scored CVEs is 7.2.
Vulnerability data is sourced from the CVE Program; severity, KEV, and exploit signals are aggregated by RadicalNotion.AI.
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