CVE-2018-1000001

Public on 2018-01-31
Modified on 2018-05-10
Description
In glibc 2.26 and earlier there is confusion in the usage of getcwd() by realpath() which can be used to write before the destination buffer leading to a buffer underflow and potential code execution.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.0
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2018-05-10 ALAS-2018-1017 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H