CVE-2012-3480 (GCVE-0-2012-3480)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-25 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
VLAI?
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
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://osvdb.org/84710 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54982 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1325.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-08/msg00… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14459 x_refsource_MISC
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1262.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1207.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027374 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/50201 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/50422 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1208.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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