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CVE-2012-3405

Disclosure Date: February 10, 2014
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Description

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers “desynchronization within the buffer size handling,” a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

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General Information

Vendors

  • canonical,
  • gnu,
  • redhat

Products

  • enterprise linux 6.0,
  • enterprise virtualization 3.0,
  • glibc 2.14,
  • ubuntu linux 10.04,
  • ubuntu linux 11.04,
  • ubuntu linux 11.10,
  • ubuntu linux 12.04,
  • ubuntu linux 8.04
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