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CVE-2012-3405

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CVE-2012-3405

Published: Feb 10, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 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 (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

RHSA-2012:1200
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
GLSA-201503-04
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
RHSA-2012:1098
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
USN-1589-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU

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