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CVE-2012-0864

Date: May 2, 2013

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.6

Related Resources (12)

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html

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

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html

Url: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00023.html

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

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52201

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0864

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0864

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-0864

Severity Score

5.6

Weakness Type (CWE)

Numeric Errors

CWE-189

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.6
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2012-0864

Date: May 2, 2013

Language: C

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Related Resources (12)

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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