CVE-2012-3480

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) strtod, (2) strtof, (3) strtold, (4)
strtod_l, and other unspecified “related functions” in stdlib in GNU C
Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.16 allow local users to cause a denial of
service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long
string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Bugs

• <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-3480&gt;
• <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14459&gt;
• <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-08/msg00202.html&gt;

Notes