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CVE-2012-0864

Published: May 2, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

[libc-alpha] 20120202 [PATCH] vfprintf: validate nargs and positional offsets

mailing-list

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article

x_refsource_MISC

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