CVE-2012-3480 (GCVE-0-2012-3480)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-25 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) strtod, (2) strtof, (3) strtold, (4) strtod_l, and other unspecified "related functions" in stdlib in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.16 allow local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
16 references
Date Public
2012-08-12 00:00
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