VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-0864

CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.72%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-05-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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