CVE-2013-4788
N/A
Published: October 4, 2013 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorGlibcEglibc
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 11%
Description
The PTR_MANGLE implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.4, 2.17, and earlier, and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) does not initialize the random value for the pointer guard, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to control execution flow by leveraging a buffer-overflow vulnerability in an application and using the known zero value pointer guard to calculate a pointer address.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Sep/23Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/15/9Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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