CVE-2012-0864
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
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Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | glibc | 2.14 | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00023.html
- http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52201
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00023.html
- http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52201
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766
CWEs
CWE-189
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.