CVE-2012-0864

glibc - Integer Overflow and Format String Attack via vfprintf

Title source: llm

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.

References (9)

Core 9

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

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

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

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

Exploit vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

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

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

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

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

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

Patch x_refsource_misc

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

Exploit mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

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

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

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

Exploit x_refsource_misc

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

Scores

EPSS 0.0304

EPSS Percentile 86.8%

Details

CWE

CWE-189

Status published

Products (1)

gnu/glibc 2.14

Published May 02, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026