CVE-2020-1751

5.1MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Red Hat
Status
Glibc
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 April 2020

Summary

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in glibc before 2.31 when handling signal trampolines on PowerPC. Specifically, the backtrace function did not properly check the array bounds when storing the frame address, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected Version(s)

glibc 2.31

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1751
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25423
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https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200430-0002/
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.1
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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