CVE-2012-0864
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2010-11-17 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
Integer overflow in the vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in glibc 2.14 and other versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE protection mechanism, conduct format string attacks, and write to arbitrary memory via a large number of arguments.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 6.8 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (glibc) | ELSA-2012-0397 | 2012-03-19 |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (glibc) | ELSA-2012-0393 | 2012-03-15 |
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