CVE-2012-3480
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 1.0%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDAug 25
1st PoCAug 13
exploitation probability
1.0%top 41% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
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References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085190.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/84710http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1207.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1208.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1262.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1325.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/50201http://secunia.com/advisories/50422http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14459http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-08/msg00202.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/4