CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-3404

Published: Feb 10, 2014 | Modified: Apr 22, 2019
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.12 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (stack corruption and crash) via a format string that uses positional parameters and many format specifiers.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 8.04 8.04
Enterprise_linux Redhat 6.0 6.0
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 11.04 11.04
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 11.10 11.10
Enterprise_virtualization Redhat 3.0 3.0
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 12.04 12.04
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 10.04 10.04
Glibc Gnu 2.12 2.12

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