CVE-2012-3406Not scoredCWE-264

CVE-2012-3406: Gnu Glibc vulnerability

Gnu · Glibc

Vendor fix available · Affected: Gnu Glibc · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

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3.2%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

88th percentile

050100

Higher than 88% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.5, 2.12, and probably other versions does not "properly restrict the use of" the alloca function when allocating the SPECS array, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted format string using positional parameters and a large number of format specifiers, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404 and CVE-2012-3405.

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Exploitation: Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls · Access Control
Vendor: Gnu
Published: February 2014
Band: Possible (1 to 10%), February 2014

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