CVE-2012-4424

medium

Published 2013-10-09 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.1

Description

Stack-based buffer 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 that triggers a malloc failure and use of the alloca function.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.17-94`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.17-94`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.17-94`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.17-94`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.17-94`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
gnu	glibc	`{"endIncluding":"2.17"}`
gnu	glibc	`2.0`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.2`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.3`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.4`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.5`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.6`
gnu	glibc	`2.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.1.6`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.2`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.3`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.9`
gnu	glibc	`2.10.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.11`
gnu	glibc	`2.11.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.11.2`
gnu	glibc	`2.11.3`
gnu	glibc	`2.12.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.12.2`
gnu	glibc	`2.13`
gnu	glibc	`2.14`
gnu	glibc	`2.14.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.15`
gnu	glibc	`2.16`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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