CVE-2012-4424: gnu glibc

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-4424 is a medium (CVSS 5.1) vulnerability in gnu glibc. EPSS estimates a 3.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 09-10-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability 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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.