Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 2, 2013· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-0864
CVE-2012-0864
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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References
8- www.phrack.org/issues.htmlnvdExploit
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/52201nvdExploit
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.htmlnvd
- sourceware.org/git/nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
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