vulnerability

Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-1751: glibc: array overflow in backtrace functions for powerpc

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
04/17/2020
Added
03/12/2021
Modified
04/11/2025

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.

Solution

linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos
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