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CVE-2012-4412

CVE-2012-4412

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 17%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDOct 9
1st PoCSep 7
exploitation probability
17%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
Integer 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, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
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