CVE-2012-4424
CVE-2012-4424
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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.
EPSS 3.4% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
Original sources
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858238
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/16
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4424