CVE-2020-6096

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Apr 1, 2020
Updated
Oct 14, 2026
Reserved
Jan 7, 2020

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Description

An exploitable signed comparison vulnerability exists in the ARMv7 memcpy() implementation of GNU glibc 2.30.9000. Calling memcpy() (on ARMv7 targets that utilize the GNU glibc implementation) with a negative value for the 'num' parameter results in a signed comparison vulnerability. If an attacker underflows the 'num' parameter to memcpy(), this vulnerability could lead to undefined behavior such as writing to out-of-bounds memory and potentially remote code execution. Furthermore, this memcpy() implementation allows for program execution to continue in scenarios where a segmentation fault or crash should have occurred. The dangers occur in that subsequent execution and iterations of this code will be executed with this corrupted data.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.08.1 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Htalos

Weaknesses

  • CWE-195 Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error

Affected Products

ProductVersions
GNU glibcn/a
  • 2.30.9000Affected

References

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