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
glibc is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. An integer overflow flaw was found in the implementation of the printf functions family. This could allow an attacker to bypass FORTIFY_SOURCE protections and execute arbitrary code using a format string flaw in an application, even though these protections are expected to limit the impact of such flaws to an application abort.
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html
sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e
sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e
sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00023.html
www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article
www.securityfocus.com/bid/52201
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0393
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0397
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0488
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0531
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0864
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766