CVE-2020-1751
Published Apr 17, 2020
Last updated a year ago
Overview
- Description
- An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in glibc before 2.31 when handling signal trampolines on PowerPC. Specifically, the backtrace function did not properly check the array bounds when storing the frame address, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.9
- Impact score
- 8.5
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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