CVE-2022-39046: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.36. When the syslog function is passed a crafted input string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a portion of the contents of the heap.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: version 2.36 only
• Netapp h300s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility: affected versions not specified

Published 2022-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.