VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2012-4412
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability17.53%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-10-09
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
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.