fkie_cve-2012-3406
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2014-02-10 18:15
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.5, 2.12, and probably other versions does not "properly restrict the use of" the alloca function when allocating the SPECS array, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted format string using positional parameters and a large number of format specifiers, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404 and CVE-2012-3405.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1097.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1098.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1185.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1200.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/17
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=594722
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826943
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1097.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1098.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1185.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1200.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/17
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=594722
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826943
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu glibc 2.5
gnu glibc 2.12
redhat enterprise_virtualization 3.0
canonical ubuntu_linux 8.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 10.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 11.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 11.10
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
redhat enterprise_linux 5
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0


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