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LIN6-4840 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2012-4424

Created: Oct 16, 2013    Updated: Mar 5, 2016
Resolved Date: Jul 6, 2014
Previous ID: LIN3-23005
Found In Version: 6.0
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6

Description

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-4424

Workaround

Unknown

Steps to Reproduce

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