Gix Date
Monthly
The gix-date library's TimeBuf component can produce invalid UTF-8 strings that corrupt its internal safety mechanisms, triggering undefined behavior in downstream processing. This local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting gix-date has public exploit code available and can cause application crashes or unexpected behavior when a local attacker supplies malformed input. No patch is currently available to remediate this issue.
The gix-date library's TimeBuf component can produce invalid UTF-8 strings that corrupt its internal safety mechanisms, triggering undefined behavior in downstream processing. This local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting gix-date has public exploit code available and can cause application crashes or unexpected behavior when a local attacker supplies malformed input. No patch is currently available to remediate this issue.