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CVE-2012-4424

Published: Oct 9, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in string/strcoll_l.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string that triggers a malloc failure and use of the alloca function.

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

References

vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858238

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547

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[oss-security] 20130913 CVE Request -- glibc: strcoll() integer overflow leading to buffer overflow + another alloca() stack overflow issue (upstream #14547 && #14552)

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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