CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0864
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc 2.14
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e sourceware.org
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00023.html Exploit
- http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52201 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e sourceware.org
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00023.html Exploit
- http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52201 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766 bugzilla.redhat.com