CVE-2012-0864

medium
Published 2013-05-02 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc2.14

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.