UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6096 (CVE-2020-6096)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2020-04-01 22:15 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:39 – Source website
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Details

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.


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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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 \u0027num\u0027 parameter results in a signed comparison vulnerability. If an attacker underflows the \u0027num\u0027 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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6096",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:39:18Z",
  "published": "2020-04-01T22:15:00Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6096"
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      "url": "https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1019"
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}



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