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Numeric Errors Affecting glibc package, versions <2.13-36

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-520107
  • published 25 Aug 2012
  • disclosed 25 Aug 2012
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Introduced: 25 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3480 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-189 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.13-36 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) strtod, (2) strtof, (3) strtold, (4) strtod_l, and other unspecified "related functions" in stdlib in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.16 allow local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

5.3 medium