CVE-2012-0864

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

Integer overflow in the vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in glibc 2.14 and other versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE protection mechanism, conduct format string attacks, and write to arbitrary memory via a large number of arguments.

Integer overflow in the vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in glibc 2.14 and other versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE protection mechanism, conduct format string attacks, and write to arbitrary memory via a large number of arguments.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-05-02 14:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-05-03 04:00:00

Affected Software

GNU glibc 2.14

2.14

References

RHSA-2012:0393

RHSA-2012:0397

RHSA-2012:0488

RHSA-2012:0531

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e

Exploit, Patch

[libc-alpha] 20120202 [PATCH] vfprintf: validate nargs and positional offsets

Exploit

http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article

Exploit

52201

Exploit

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766

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