{"vulnerability": "cve-2012-6711", "sightings": [{"uuid": "aac919a2-a103-474d-8695-b9eeba3e8598", "vulnerability_lookup_origin": "1a89b78e-f703-45f3-bb86-59eb712668bd", "author": "9f56dd64-161d-43a6-b9c3-555944290a09", "vulnerability": "CVE-2012-6711", "type": "seen", "source": "https://t.me/cibsecurity/4993", "content": "ATENTION\u203c New - CVE-2012-6711\n\nA heap-based buffer overflow exists in GNU Bash before 4.3 when wide characters, not supported by the current locale set in the LC_CTYPE environment variable, are printed through the echo built-in function. A local attacker, who can provide data to print through the \"echo -e\" built-in function, may use this flaw to crash a script or execute code with the privileges of the bash process. This occurs because ansicstr() in lib/sh/strtrans.c mishandles u32cconv().\n\n\ud83d\udcd6 Read\n\nvia \"National Vulnerability Database\".", "creation_timestamp": "2019-06-18T22:33:25.000000Z"}]}