CVE-2020-29573 Information

Description

sysdeps/i386/ldbl2mpn.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 on x86 targets has a stack-based buffer overflow if the input to any of the printf family of functions is an 80-bit long double with a non-canonical bit pattern as seen when passing a \x00\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x04 value to sprintf. NOTE: the issue does not affect glibc by default in 2016 or later (i.e. 2.23 or later) because of commits made in 2015 for inlining of C99 math functions through use of GCC built-ins. In other words the reference to 2.23 is intentional despite the mention of \Fixed for glibc 2.33\ in the 26649 reference.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26649 https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-September/117779.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0004/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5