Record summary

CVE-2013-4788 has a selected CVSS score of 5.1; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

Description

The PTR_MANGLE implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.4, 2.17, and earlier, and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) does not initialize the random value for the pointer guard, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to control execution flow by leveraging a buffer-overflow vulnerability in an application and using the known zero value pointer guard to calculate a pointer address.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
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Proofs of concept

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Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBglibc and eglibc 2.5/2.7/2.13 - Local Buffer OverflowExploitDB exploitby Hector Marco & Ismael RipollNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

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