CVE-2012-2114

high
Published 2012-08-31 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in fprintf in musl before 0.8.8 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string to an unbuffered stream such as stderr.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
etalabsmusl{"endIncluding":"0.8.8"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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