Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.17-94
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-522397
- published 9 Oct 2013
- disclosed 9 Oct 2013
Introduced: 9 Oct 2013
CVE-2012-4424 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.17-94 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.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4424
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/16
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858238
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-4424
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284
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