CVE-2012-3509
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 5, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 14, 2012
Description
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) _objalloc_alloc function in objalloc.c and (2) objalloc_alloc macro in include/objalloc.h in GNU libiberty, as used by binutils 2.22, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the "addition of CHUNK_HEADER_SIZE to the length," which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- MDVSA-2015:029vendor-advisory
- [gcc-patches] 20120829 [PATCH] PR other/54411: libiberty: objalloc_alloc integer overflows (CVE-2012-3509)mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20120829 CVE-2012-3509: objalloc_alloc integer overflows in libibertymailing-list
- USN-2496-1vendor-advisory
- gnu-libiberty-overflow(78135)vdb-entry
- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54411
- 55281vdb-entry
- http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3509
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