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LIN6-5162 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2012-0864

Created: May 14, 2013    Updated: Mar 5, 2016
Resolved Date: Jul 6, 2014
Previous ID: LIN3-26275
Found In Version: 6.0
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6

Description

Integer overflow in the vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in glibc 2.14 and other versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE protection mechanism, conduct format string attacks, and write to arbitrary memory via a large number of arguments.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-0864

Workaround

Unknown

Steps to Reproduce

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