CVE-2012-3405 in Ubuntu Linuxinfo

Summary

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 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 (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

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Reservation

06/14/2012

Disclosure

02/10/2014

Entries

1

CPE

ready

CVSS

5.3

EPSS

0.00666

Activities

Very Low

Sources

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