CVE-2017-18269
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 4.6% (pctl 91)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 4.63% — more likely to be exploited than 91% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2018-05-18 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| gnu | glibc |
| linux | linux kernel |
References
- https://github.com/fingolfin/memmove-bug
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190329-0001/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190401-0001/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22644
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=cd66c0e584c6d692bc8347b5e72723d02b8a8ada
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/
- https://github.com/fingolfin/memmove-bug
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190329-0001/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190401-0001/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22644
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=cd66c0e584c6d692bc8347b5e72723d02b8a8ada
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/
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