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
0.013 Low
EPSS
Percentile
85.5%
Integer overflow in the vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in
glibc 2.14 and other versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass
the FORTIFY_SOURCE protection mechanism, conduct format string attacks, and
write to arbitrary memory via a large number of arguments.
Author | Note |
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jdstrand | proposed patch in upstream bug. Not approved yet |