CVE-2012-0864 (GCVE-0-2012-0864)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-05-02 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article | x_refsource_MISC |
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