VDB
CVE-2012-4424
CVE-2012-4424
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.099999904632568 MEDIUM
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.
EPSS 3.38% · 87.6th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 2.0
5.099999904632568
EPSS Score
3.38%
87.6th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| gnu | glibc | 2.16, 0, 2.0 |
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
Timeline
- Oct 9, 2013 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 9, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 3, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 17, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858238 url
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547 url
- [oss-security] 20130913 CVE Request -- glibc: strcoll() integer overflow leading to buffer overflow + another alloca() stack overflow issue (upstream #14547 && #14552) mailing-list
- GLSA-201503-04 vendor-advisory
- USN-1991-1 vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2013:284 vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2013:283 vendor-advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4424 advisory