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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-11237: Security patch for glibc (ALAS-2018-1109)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-11237: Security patch for glibc (ALAS-2018-1109)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/18/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/07/2018
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

An AVX-512-optimized implementation of the mempcpy function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.27 and earlier may write data beyond the target buffer, leading to a buffer overflow in __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc

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