CVE-2011-2702
mediumpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.085 · 95 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Integer signedness error in Glibc before 2.13 and eglibc before 2.13, when using Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3) optimization, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative length parameter to (1) memcpy-ssse3-rep.S, (2) memcpy-ssse3.S, or (3) memset-sse2.S in sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/, which triggers an out-of-bounds read, as demonstrated using the memcpy function.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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exploits (1)
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- EDB-20167eGlibc - Signedness Code Executionfunctional · exploit_db
affected products (5)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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references (16)
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- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q3/123enisa_euvd
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q3/153enisa_euvd
- http://www.eglibc.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/libc/ChangeLog?view=markup&pathrev=10032enisa_euvd
- http://www.nodefense.org/eglibc.txtenisa_euvd
- http://www.osvdb.org/80718enisa_euvd
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/cve-2011-2702-eglibc-and-glibc-signedness-issue/enisa_euvd
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706915enisa_euvd
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a0ac24d98ace90d1ccba6a2f3e7d55600f2fdb6eenisa_euvd
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