CVE-2012-3480

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-08-25 10:29:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-01 01:29:00

Affected Software

GNU glibc 2.16

2.16

References

FEDORA-2012-11927

84710

RHSA-2012:1207

RHSA-2012:1208

RHSA-2012:1262

RHSA-2012:1325

50201

Vendor Advisory

50422

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14459

[libc-alpha] 20120812 Fix strtod integer/buffer overflow (bug 14459)

[oss-security] 20120813 CVE Request -- glibc: Integer overflows, leading to stack-based buffer overflows in strto* related routines

[oss-security] 20120813 Re: CVE Request -- glibc: Integer overflows, leading to stack-based buffer overflows in strto* related routines

54982

1027374

USN-1589-1

GLSA-201503-04

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