CVE-2013-4788

CVE-2013-4788 affects glibc (GNU C Library) up to version 2.4/2.17 and EGLIBC; PTR_MANGLE does not initialize the random value for the pointer guard, enabling context-dependent attackers to influence control flow via a buffer-overflow in an application. Affected components: PTR_MANGLE implementat...

CVE-2013-4788

The PTRMANGLE implementation in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.4, 2.17, and earlier, and Embedded GLIBC EGLIBC does not initialize the random value for the pointer guard, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to control execution flow by leveraging a buffer-overflow...