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GNU C Library vulnerabilities

2012-10-0200:00:00
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38

7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.016 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.9%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • Ubuntu 11.10
  • Ubuntu 11.04
  • Ubuntu 10.04
  • Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

  • eglibc - GNU C Library
  • glibc - GNU C Library

Details

It was discovered that positional arguments to the printf() family
of functions were not handled properly in the GNU C Library. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a stack-based buffer
overflow, creating a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2012-3404, CVE-2012-3405, CVE-2012-3406)

It was discovered that multiple integer overflows existed in the
strtod(), strtof() and strtold() functions in the GNU C Library. An
attacker could possibly use this to trigger a stack-based buffer
overflow, creating a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2012-3480)

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7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.016 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.9%