CVE-2017-18269

CRITICAL

glibc 2.21-2.27 - Memory Corruption via SSE2-optimized memmove Overlap Check

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An SSE2-optimized memmove implementation for i386 in sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/memcpy-sse2-unaligned.S in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.21 through 2.27 does not correctly perform the overlapping memory check if the source memory range spans the middle of the address space, resulting in corrupt data being produced by the copy operation. This may disclose information to context-dependent attackers, or result in a denial of service, or, possibly, code execution.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190329-0001/
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190401-0001/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0111
EPSS Percentile 78.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/glibc 2.21 - 2.27
Published May 18, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026