glibc — security advisory
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in glibc before 2.31 when handling signal trampolines on PowerPC. Specifically, the backtrace function did not properly check the array bounds when storing the frame address, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
- Products
- glibc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.30-3
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1751
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in glibc before 2.31 when handling signal trampolines on PowerPC. Specifically, the backtrace function did not properly check the array bounds when storing the frame address, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1751
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.30-3
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.30-3
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.30-3
Complete source record
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