Out-of-bounds Write Affecting glibc-i18ndata package, versions <2.26-13.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-GLIBCI18NDATA-2762985
  • 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-i18ndata to version 2.26-13.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-i18ndata package and not the glibc-i18ndata 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 Scores

version 3.1