VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4412

high
Published 2013-10-09 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Integer overflow in string/strcoll_l.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4412

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.17-94
debian debianbullseyefixed2.17-94
debian debianforkyfixed2.17-94
debian debiansidfixed2.17-94
debian debiantrixiefixed2.17-94

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endIncluding":"2.17"}
gnuglibc2.0
gnuglibc2.0.1
gnuglibc2.0.2
gnuglibc2.0.3
gnuglibc2.0.4
gnuglibc2.0.5
gnuglibc2.0.6
gnuglibc2.1
gnuglibc2.1.1
gnuglibc2.1.1.6
gnuglibc2.1.2
gnuglibc2.1.3
gnuglibc2.1.9
gnuglibc2.10.1
gnuglibc2.11
gnuglibc2.11.1
gnuglibc2.11.2
gnuglibc2.11.3
gnuglibc2.12.1
gnuglibc2.12.2
gnuglibc2.13
gnuglibc2.14
gnuglibc2.14.1
gnuglibc2.15
gnuglibc2.16

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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