PRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2012-4424Stack overflow
8.6 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
5.1 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.016 Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.9%
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.
References
sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/16
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858238
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
Related
8.6 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
5.1 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.016 Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.9%