CVE-2020-29573CWE-787

CVE-2020-29573

High · published December 6, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
3%
Percentile
85.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02723 · 85.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2020-12-06T05:15Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/glibc< 2.232.23
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
netapp/cloud_backupall versions—
netapp/solidfire_baseboard_management_controllerall versions—
References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 DEC 23:18Z
    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…
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