CVE-2012-4412 (GCVE-0-2012-4412)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-09 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:35
VLAI
Summary
Integer 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, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/55113 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855385 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/9 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/14 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2013-09-05 00:00
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