#VU13200 Buffer overflow in Glibc - CVE-2018-11237

 

#VU13200 Buffer overflow in Glibc - CVE-2018-11237

Published: June 6, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13200
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11237
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Glibc
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an AVX-512-optimized implementation of the mempcpy function may write data beyond the target buffer. A local attacker can trigger buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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