CVE-2012-4424
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 9, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 21, 2012
Description
Stack-based buffer 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 that triggers a malloc failure and use of the alloca function.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- USN-1991-1vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2013:284vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858238
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547
- [oss-security] 20130913 CVE Request -- glibc: strcoll() integer overflow leading to buffer overflow + another alloca() stack overflow issue (upstream #14547 && #14552)mailing-list
- GLSA-201503-04vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2013:283vendor-advisory
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