CVE-2020-6096
HIGH 8.1EPSS 5.5%
An exploitable signed comparison vulnerability exists in the ARMv7 memcpy() implementation of GNU glibc 2.30.9000. Calling memcpy() (on ARMv7 targets that utilize the GNU glibc implementation) with a negative value for the 'num' parameter results in a signed comparison vulnerability. If an attacker underflows the 'num' parameter to memcpy(), this vulnerability could lead to undefined behavior such as writing to out-of-bounds memory and potentially remote code execution. Furthermore, this memcpy() implementation allows for program execution to continue in scenarios where a segmentation fault or crash should have occurred. The dangers occur in that subsequent execution and iterations of this code will be executed with this corrupted data.
- Affected
- GNU glibc
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 8.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.0 CISCO
- 8.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 5.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 93rd percentile
- Published
- 2020-04-01
- Updated
- 2026-10-14
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- KashaMalaga/cve2020-60961★ · 2020-06-11
Security advisories
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25620
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1019