Record summary

CVE-2012-4412 has a selected CVSS score of 7.5; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

Description

Integer 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, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBGNU glibc - 'strcoll()' Routine Integer OverflowExploitDB exploitby Jan iankko LieskovskyNot analyzed1 file
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