Out-of-bounds Write Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.23)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319028
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed6 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-29573  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.23 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write sysdeps/i386/ldbl2mpn.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 on x86 targets has a stack-based buffer overflow if the input to any of the printf family of functions is an 80-bit long double with a non-canonical bit pattern, as seen when passing a \x00\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x04 value to sprintf. NOTE: the issue does not affect glibc by default in 2016 or later (i.e., 2.23 or later) because of commits made in 2015 for inlining of C99 math functions through use of GCC built-ins. In other words, the reference to 2.23 is intentional despite the mention of "Fixed for glibc 2.33" in the 26649 reference.

CVSS Scores

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