CVE-2012-0864
N/A
Published: May 2, 2013 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGlibc
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
Integer overflow in the vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in glibc 2.14 and other versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE protection mechanism, conduct format string attacks, and write to arbitrary memory via a large number of arguments.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (9)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00023.htmlx_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#articleQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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