CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-3480
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) strtod, (2) strtof, (3) strtold, (4) strtod_l, and other unspecified "related functions" in stdlib in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.16 allow local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc 2.16
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085190.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://osvdb.org/84710 osvdb.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1207.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1208.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1262.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1325.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50201 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50422 secunia.com
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14459 sourceware.org
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-08/msg00202.html sourceware.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54982 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027374 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085190.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://osvdb.org/84710 osvdb.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1207.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1208.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1262.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1325.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50201 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50422 secunia.com
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14459 sourceware.org
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-08/msg00202.html sourceware.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54982 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027374 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 security.gentoo.org