CVE-2012-4424 (GCVE-0-2012-4424)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-09 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:35
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Date Public
2013-09-11 00:00
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