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CVE-2020-1751

Published: Apr 17, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.1

MEDIUM

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	glibc	affected `2.31`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1751

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25423

x_refsource_MISC

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200430-0002/

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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