5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.016 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.0%
The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library
(aka glibc) 2.12 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer
length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the
FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of
service (stack corruption and crash) via a format string that uses
positional parameters and many format specifiers.
Author | Note |
---|---|
sbeattie | lucid -> oneiric only |
sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12445
sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=84a4211850e3d23a9d3a4f3b294752a3b30bc0ff
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/17
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/5
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833703
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2012-3404
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3404
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3404
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1589-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3404