GNU : Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs, Published In February 2014 (Code Execution)
The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.5, 2.12, and probably other versions does not "properly restrict the use of" the alloca function when allocating the SPECS array, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted format string using positional parameters and a large number of format specifiers, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404 and CVE-2012-3405.
Max CVSS
6.8
EPSS Score
0.32%
Published
2014-02-10
Updated
2019-04-22
1 vulnerabilities found