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High · 8.1 CVE-2020-6096 EUVD-2020-27250GHSA-xmhr-mv9m-hhvf

An exploitable signed comparison vulnerability exists in the ARMv7 memcpy() implementation of GNU glibc 2.30.9000. Calling memcpy() (on ARM…

Published Apr 1, 2020 · Updated Oct 14, 2026 · Assigned by talos

Description

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— GNU glibc 2.30.9000 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 glibc 2.31-2 —
Debian 13 glibc 2.31-2 —
Debian 12 glibc 2.31-2 —
Debian 10 glibc 2.28-10+deb10u2 DLA-3152-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS glibc 2.31-0ubuntu9.7 USN-5310-1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS glibc 2.27-3ubuntu1.5 USN-5310-1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS glibc 2.23-0ubuntu11.3 USN-4954-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS eglibc No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed glibc 2.34-1.2 openSUSE-SU-2024:10792-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2 nscd +199 2.26-41.amzn2 ALAS2-2021-1605

Advisories 8

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