CVE-2012-3406
Published Feb 10, 2014
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.5, 2.12, and probably other versions does not "properly restrict the use of" the alloca function when allocating the SPECS array, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted format string using positional parameters and a large number of format specifiers, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404 and CVE-2012-3405.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.8
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-264
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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