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CVE-2012-3480

Published: Aug 25, 2012 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.4 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3480
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/189.html

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 Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
GlibcGnu2.16 (including)2.16 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatglibc-0:2.5-81.el5_8.7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatglibc-0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.5*
RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6RedHatrhev-hypervisor6-0:6.3-20120926.0.el6_3*
EglibcUbuntudevel*
EglibcUbuntulucid*
EglibcUbuntunatty*
EglibcUbuntuoneiric*
EglibcUbuntuprecise*
GlibcUbuntuhardy*

References

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