CVE-2011-2702

Published: Oct 27, 2014Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-94

6.8MEDIUM

NVD MITRE

Description

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAccess Vector

Network

AC:MAccess Complexity

Medium

Au:NAuthentication

None

Impact

C:PConfidentiality

Partial

I:PIntegrity

Partial

A:PAvailability

Partial

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Weaknesses

CWE-94

Affected Products

gnu

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Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Execution

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References

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706915

bugzilla.novell.com

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q3/123

seclists.org

http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/cve-2011-2702-eglibc-and-glibc-signedness-issue/

xorl.wordpress.com

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