Out-of-bounds Write Affecting glibc-devel package, versions <2.26-13.3.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.88% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-GLIBCDEVEL-2762897
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed19 Jul 2018

Introduced: 19 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-11237  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 glibc-devel to version 2.26-13.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-devel package and not the glibc-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

An AVX-512-optimized implementation of the mempcpy function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.27 and earlier may write data beyond the target buffer, leading to a buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper.

CVSS Base Scores

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