CVE-2012-4424

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 3
Modified
Published: 09 Oct 2013, 22:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 20:35

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
5.1 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.61% LOW
1% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Oct 2013, 22:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 20:35
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.61%• Percentile: 70%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • gnu•glibc

    ≤ 2.17 | 2.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5 | 2.0.6 | 2.1 | 2.11 | 2.1.1.6 | 2.12 | 2.13 | 2.19 | 2.10.1 | 2.11.1 | 2.11.2 | 2.11.3 | 2.12.1 | 2.12.2 | 2.14 | 2.14.1 | 2.15 | 2.16

References (7)