Out-of-bounds Write Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.27)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.84% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319049
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed31 Jan 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-1000001  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.27 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. In glibc 2.26 and earlier there is confusion in the usage of getcwd() by realpath() which can be used to write before the destination buffer leading to a buffer underflow and potential code execution.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1