CVE-2012-3405

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length…

published February 10, 2014

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
81.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02087 · 81.3th percentile
Published
2014-02-10T17:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 FEB 17:00Z
    The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length…
    cvelistv5