Out-of-bounds Write Affecting glibc-minimal-langpack package, versions <0:2.28-127.0.1.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE8-GLIBCMINIMALLANGPACK-2563603
  • published 10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 4 Mar 2020

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 glibc-minimal-langpack to version 0:2.28-127.0.1.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2020-4444.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-minimal-langpack package and not the glibc-minimal-langpack package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.32 could overflow an on-stack buffer during range reduction if an input to an 80-bit long double function contains a non-canonical bit pattern, a seen when passing a 0x5d414141414141410000 value to sinl on x86 targets. This is related to sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/e_rem_pio2l.c.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

2.9 low
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Red Hat

5.7 medium