Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting glibc-utils package, versions <0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-GLIBCUTILS-1446613
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed12 Aug 2012

Introduced: 12 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3480  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 glibc-utils to version 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2012:1208.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-utils package and not the glibc-utils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1