CVE-2012-0864 (GCVE-0-2012-0864)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-05-02 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:38
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Summary
Integer overflow in the vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in glibc 2.14 and other versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE protection mechanism, conduct format string attacks, and write to arbitrary memory via a large number of arguments.
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