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CVE-2024-30949

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An issue in newlib v.4.3.0 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the time unit scaling in the _gettimeofday function.

Affected products

• Red Hat newlib: 4.3.0

References

• https://gist.github.com/visitorckw/6b26e599241ea80210ea136b28441661
• https://inbox.sourceware.org/newlib/20231129035714.469943-1-visitorckw%40gmail.com/
• https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5f15d7c5817b07a6b18cbab17342c95cb7b42be4

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