Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.17-94


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.11% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-GLIBC-356820
  • published9 Oct 2013
  • disclosed9 Oct 2013

Introduced: 9 Oct 2013

CVE-2012-4424  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 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:8 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.

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