vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-11237: ELSA-2018-3092: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 17, 2018
Added
Nov 6, 2018
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

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.
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) in the __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper function when particular conditions are met. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-glibcoracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-commonoracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-develoracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-headersoracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-staticoracle-linux-upgrade-glibc-utilsoracle-linux-upgrade-nscd
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